This is my last post for the year. This year was full of pain for me, from a massive earthquake in Türkiye resulting in a death of over 50,000 people, including a friend, to election disappointment in my country and especially now a horrible massacre and kidnappings of good and innocent people in a country I love by a terrorist organisation that resulted in even more death. My one wish for 2024: Bring them home safely. Let the war end. Let them heal. 🇮🇱 🕊️
İnsanları sadece ikiye ayiriyor'um artik iyiler ve kötüler....
Ve bu konuda aşırı ırkcı'yım itiraf ediyorum...
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Hala dini, dili, ırkı ayrıştırıcı farklılık sanan sığbeyinler... İnsanı insan yapan, bizleri buluşturan, yüreklerimizi titreten tek şey sevgi. Bazen bir şarkıda, bazen bir şiirde hepimizi birleştiren, ağlatan, saran, yaşadığımızı hatırlatan tek şey bakışlarımızdaki, sarılmamızdaki, birlikte ağlamamızdaki mucize 'sevgi'. Parayı, suni olan her şeyi yüceleştiren, çocukları ağlatan, bizi yalnızlığa mahkum eden, umutlarımızı hayallerimizi çalan tek şey sevgisizlik. Bazen bir şarkıda, bazen bir şiirde, bazen bir acıda tüm renkler birleştiğinde yaşıyorum. Birkaç şarkı paylaşıyorum seninle, notalarında buluşup sarılabileceğimiz. Bu şarkıları dinlerken sevgiyi hissedemiyorsan, yanındakine sarılamıyorsan sen yaşamıyorsun. Bu vesileyle, Hristiyan dostlarımın Paskalya, Musevi dostlarımın Pesah heyecanını paylaşıyorum. Kadir gecesinde 7 camiyi, Paskalyada kiliseyi,
Pesah'ta sinagogu paylaşır, alevisi,budisti, ateisti ve dahasında sevgiyi paylaşırız. Eğer yaradana sevgin varsa, yarattığına sevgin hayli hayli var. Yoksa sahtesin, yoksa yalansın. Bu satırları okuyan her kimsen, bu şarkılarda gözlerimi kapatıp sana sarılıyorum.
When religion is working for others and they’re leading productive lives and shining the light on the people around them why correct their understanding forgiveness. When someone takes a different approach and goes to classes for meditation and becomes more mystical in their reading of biblical wisdom it isn’t unchristian of them. They’re simply being individuals with different philosophies slightly alien to our own. Everyone is seeing things in their own way. Maybe embrace their take on scripture by opening up a dialogue and remember everyone was given two ears and one mouth.
I cannot recall how many awesome conversations I’ve had with church family who have no grasp on the wisdom tradition or mystic Christianity. Each time I’ve entered into discussion with someone who comes from a completely different angle than mine I learn something that widens my heart to God. Almost all of the members of my current congregation have never heard of the Nag Hammadi Codices let alone read them. Many of them are far enough up there in age that they refuse to touch anything other than a King James bible. Would I be showing kindness to brothers and sisters by describing the ins and outs of the political agenda that created the KJV? Whose work would my little i be doing if i snatched the word from their heart?
Mystic Christianity has never been received with excitement by huge crowds. Very few are shouting out “WISDOM ENTERS IN THROUGH THE GATE OF THE HEART! WOO! WOOH!” Imagine St John of the Cross playing frat boy with Theresa of Avilla knowing how small the mystic circle is. I mean, maybe 1 out of 85 members in a typical church has ever even been on a retreat where they teach meditation while everyone spends a few weeks living as monks.
Some of the hysteria surrounding the inner tradition comes from it being the educated scholars that fought off the mystic trends at Nicaea. Intellectuals don’t tend to be in touch with their feelings. Add the political agenda of an Emperor in the mix and the need for a unified hierarchy capable of keeping people in line becomes apparent. As a result, the people who originally penned the doctrine of Christ for the newly formed church of Rome did so in an incredibly tumultuous time. They were up against a sea of wildly diverse takes on Christ and what He said and did all of which were already in heavy rotation.
I say, respect the standing traditions and start meditation classes within the Churches. We could easily continue observing all the rights of a regular service and meet in the middle of the week to discuss mystics like Hildegard of Bingen, Brother Lawrence, and Meister Eckhart; all of whom left us fantastic methods of meditation. We have this great internal landscape within Christianity. Why not explore it?
Now that we’re capable of separating dogma and mysticism we almost have to tread careful. The paradigm built on lies and misunderstanding is a difficult hurdle to jump over. That doesn’t mean it can’t be done. It means we who know have to be patient and compassionate to the ones who don’t. It is what it is though so let love be your religion.
tomorrow morning at 10 am will be the first time I attend Sunday Service at a Queer Affirming Church, ever
I'm beyond thrilled and terrified, not terrified for reasons people would think, I've always been afraid of taking the first step for anything new, I unfortunately have the habit of being irrationally afraid of anything I have zero experience with, my upbringing was pure hell emotionally/mentally speaking, no one taught me any better, people always just assumed that I would "eventually learn what to do"
bullshit on that(lol)
anywho, I digress
so tomorrow will be the first time I attend Sunday Service, that experience is a completely new one to me, I was raised agnostic and the only times I've ever been inside of a church was when my parents would be taking part in craft shows/church sales for extra money/etc,
I'm excited because I have a very strong Faith that keeps me going everyday and because I just wanna bring myself closer to God but also because I long for community and friendship with like-minded individuals
I'm terrified because my anxiety brain always worries about what people think about me, my outside appearance, my voice, etc, all the that pointless stuff that we humans care about that God doesn't care about
God doesn't look at our bodies and "determine our worth", God looks at our Hearts because he/she made them and infact made our entire bodies but that's beside the point I'm trying to make
I keep trying my best to tell the devil to fuck off(lol) and for God and his/her Angels to guide me at all times, protect me/cleanse my mind and fill my heart with sanity and peace/etc,
going tomorrow will be a huge deal for me, it's something I've been dying to do
I feel like tomorrow will probably be one of the best days of my life
God please give me the strength to not be afraid to be myself
only God knows what's in my future and I can live with that, that's more than enough for me 💖🌹🙏
Oscar Wilde // L. Munir, "Lazarus" // Gustav Klimt, The Kiss // @lucidloving // Take Me to Church—Hozier // Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" // @lucidloving // Gustav Vigeland, Man and Woman // Caitlyn Sieh, "Mythology" // @lucidloving
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“God is at home, it is who have went out for a walk.” -Meister Eckhart