Identify Your Theology: The Second Question

Identify Your Theology:
Second Question

Today we go to our second question, but first, take a moment to get centered. I invite you to do the mini-retreat to help you let go of any stress you might be hanging onto before considering question number two.

Yesterday, we looked at what your beliefs were like in childhood. 

Today's question is: how did your beliefs shift & change as you grew older? When you were fully adult and able to choose what to believe without undue influence, what was your faith experience?

"My Father sat me down in front of all his books and told me point blank that they were His Truths, but that they might not be My Truths. That if there was anything I wanted to research and read I should, and that I should not stop searching or be told I couldn’t, and that he would glad for me for whatever I found that would fill up my heart and soul to its very furthest fingertips." ~Amanda Tillman

"This is a stupendous moment for a woman – when she decides to live from her own inner guidance. It is, however, excruciatingly hard for a patriarchal daughter to accomplish. She may have to do it, as I did, in stages.

Women grow afraid at this moment because it means giving up a world where everything is neat and safe. In that world we feel secure, taken care of; we know where we’re going. Then we wake up and find the old way doesn’t work, that it no longer fits our identity, that by clinging to it, we’re cutting ourselves off from something profound." ~Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

"I knew that despite how unthinkable and forbidden it was, I needed to move beyond religion in a patriarchal institution. That may not be true for every woman. But for me it was crucial to my spiritual maturity and growth. At that moment I took sole responsibility for my spiritual life.” ~~Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

Now that you’ve read today’s question and a quote or two to get you thinking, head on back into the mini-retreat to close it and to see the journal questions and the blessing I’ve written for you.

Peaceful retreat closing

Want to see my book list for these questions? Visit my Twenty Questions store.  

I'll be taking the weekend off to watch movies and hang out with my family, but I'll see you back here on Monday. :)
 

Have a great weekend!

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