{"id":425,"date":"2017-04-03T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=425"},"modified":"2017-04-03T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:27:32","slug":"am-i-spiritual-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/am-i-spiritual-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I Spiritual Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I had the honor of having my blog \u00a0shared in an online group of fellow women clergy. I was excited until\u00a0I reread what I had posted. Argh! Another political post where I talked about our nation\u2019s need to repeat the part of our\u00a0history that expresses the ideals upon which we are founded. It wasn\u2019t bad. But was it spiritual? Did I share anything worthy of my clergy-sisters\u2019 time and attention?<\/p>\n

I wrestled with this a while. Some of my concerns were clearly ego. My online connection with other clergywomen is vitally important to me. What would they think? Even more important, am I spiritual enough for my cohorts in ministry?<\/p>\n

I wondered if\u00a0I am spiritual enough for myself. Here is what I rediscovered:<\/p>\n

– spirituality has a million expressions<\/p>\n

– whether I mention Godde or not, Godde is my ground of being (thanks, Tillich) When I act consciously<\/em> I reflect my understanding of and relationship with the Divine.<\/p>\n

– if I am not fighting injustice, concerned about \u2018the least of these\u2019 then I am not expressing my understanding, relationship, and experience of Godde.<\/p>\n

– I would not be so passionately engaged in current politics if I didn’t\u00a0name the evils of oppression, racism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, and the rape of the earth and sea and sky.<\/p>\n

Because I am a Christian I will continue to speak and act out against the policies and actions of the current administration. I may not name Godde or Christ in each post, but I have reminded myself that I am following in a Way of peace and justice for humankind.<\/p>\n

So I may not mention Godde. I may not thump on a Bible, defend a theological precept or church doctrine (actually I don\u2019t do those things, anyway) but I will<\/em> continue to live in such a way works for a world in which the hungry are fed, the homeless housed, the naked clothed, the oppressed set free, the prisoner liberated, and the earth protected.<\/p>\n

It is good to trust that my clergy sisters know this.\u00a0I am grateful my post was\u00a0shared and I am even more grateful for the opportunity \u00a0to remind\u00a0myself that I am<\/em> spiritual enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I had the honor of having my blog \u00a0shared in an online group of fellow women clergy. I was excited until\u00a0I reread what I had posted. Argh! Another political post where I talked about our nation\u2019s need to repeat the part of our\u00a0history that expresses the ideals upon which we are founded. It … Continue reading Am I Spiritual Enough?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,13,8,21,23,25,19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}