Dreaming...

I am dreaming about how I engage with the next season of my journey and vocation. I carry so much in regards to self-discovery. It's heavy regarding how much I had to unpack and discard to be able to discover myself. It is heavy in regards to how the church treats people who are LGBTQIA+, like me. It is heavy in regards to choices I made as I was learning about myself. It is heavy now as I often feel so alone. 

My faith does give me space for understanding my own journey. However, the institutional church is very intertwined to the heaviness of my journey.

As, I dream and discern, I understand that I have the gifts of a listener and of one who can walk alongside others who are trying to make sense of their spirituality and live guided by that part of themselves. I am deeply aware of how institutional religion can, at best, complicate and, worse, cause injury and to each of us as we navigate our spiritual jouney. I am looking at developing relationships with people who are interested in working with me to deepen their own intentionality for their spirituall journey. While I am deeply Christian in my faith, I am not called to engage only with Christians. I am working with a coach to help me stay centered in the role of listener. The coach is also helping me develop plans for retreats where people could learn meditation tools as well as process ways in which institutional religion has hampered that journey.

If you resonate with any that I have written here, please message me through my Facebook page. Questions, thoughts,  and stories would all be helpful as I dream about the next steps. The days of these dreams being lived into are coming. I am looking for people who who might join me.

Photo credit...shared by my friend Roger of St Michael's Mount in England