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Started by: White Crow Sent: 06/02/2001 22:46 5 Replies
After some of the heavy stuff which I've put on this site, I think its time to celebrate the people who have made a real difference to our spiritual life. Those teachers, who may be none-Wiccans who really opened our eyes...

Blessings and love,

White Crow

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From: White Crow Sent: 06/02/2001 23:05 1 of 5
There is a saying that the sound of true God(dess) is a quite, still voice. So it is that the man whom I have the most respect for seemed to have a calm, soft nature.

He was my University Chaplain, and through him I got involved with the University Anglican Fellowship. This was a group which helped me tremendously spiritually. We were very close to each other, almost like you dream a coven would be when you read any Wicca book.

Most of our excercises in meetings were not Bible studies type actions (I cannot remember a single Bible study!). Instead we would often perform,
meditation / visualisation excercises and discuss them afterwards
spiritual games, where in all fun, you look at how you behave to tell you something of what you feel is important or not about your religion
general debates on faith
Taize chanting, which is a form a meditation
prayer, during which we would form a circle, done to candle light
cakes and (home-made) wine afterwards
I think its not hard to see from that how many parallels to Wiccan practises there are. We also sometimes had people from other faiths to lead us in thought and prayer without feeling our own faith threatened.

It was an enlightened group to be amongst ... its a shame more Churches are not so inclined!

But I was just in awe of this guy, really hero worshiped, and still do. I perhaps made the mistake of wanting to be too much like him and become a Vicar, but now respect / love him without wanting to just be a carbon copy!

Love and blessings,

White Crow

From: Shollo Sent: 06/02/2001 23:27 2 of 5
In agreement with all sentiment, I offer my thanks to a good friend Alan, a man who taught me the difference between seeing what you want to see, and finding things that have happened, and more importantly to my grandmother, who kept my imagination alive, and taught me how to visualise, and for who i still feel guilty about the funeral. So thats a public apology to my grandmother, for having other things on my mind at her funeral. Im deeply sorry, and i didnt notice how great you'd been, til i found out what youd told me meant.

shollo

From: Akasha Sent: 07/02/2001 11:03 3 of 5
just to be a bit different, i would like to thank all those awkward, uncaring, stressed individuals and extreme conformists, who taught me so much in my quest to be as little like them as possible.

From: Star Sent: 07/02/2001 14:51 4 of 5
I would like to attribute my spirituality and open mind to my father. Who, when I asked him how so many different religions could all be right, he told me the answer in one life changing sentance:
"If it feels like the truth, it is the truth".

From: Akasha Sent: 08/02/2001 14:29 5 of 5
My dad always says "destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice", i find that is quite inspirational!!