thread: 2006-09-08 : Salvation, damnation, justification, a la Sydney
On 2006-09-12, Meguey wrote:
Twila, I hear you. I am struggling with what and how to teach my sons about religion(s), both so they are culturally literate and so they are grounded in their own beliefs and understand mine.
This may be horribly overly simplistic, but, if you find the idea of becoming dirt sad, find and read the children's book The 10th Good Thing About Barney. Becoming part of the Earth is something I think of as profoundly sacred. It's part of what offers me great comfort when I contemplate death. It doesn't mean my life will lack meaning. It doesn't mean I won't be remembered. It doesn't mean I wasn't loved and won't be mourned. It means I'm now something utterlly, transformatively different. And what happens to the energy/spark/soul/chi that is unique to me, that's a great Mystery to me. And that's really, deeply, ok.
