Life Change Is Inevitable

My history teacher friend, in myspace, commented on this recent post of mine:

Original Post:
"This morning a myspace friend writes me to ask:

I see your Early this Sunday , How have you been?  Do you go to Church?

My reply:

It is good to hear from others, who ask us important questions.
Here is my reply:

Dear Friend,

Hello there!  An unfortunate woman in Jakarta, Indonesia, suffering from years of drug addiction, mentioned last night that she would be back on line at 5am, my time.  I explained to her that I would most likely sleep late, until 9am.  But, I fell asleep rather early, 10pm, and awoke at 4am.  I remembered that she would be on line, so I logged into yahoo, and chatted with her for a few minutes, before she had to log off.

I was never brought to any church, even once, as a child.  At age 23, I decided to become Greek Orthodox, and for the next 20 years attended many Greek and Russian churches.  In my late 40s, I drifted away from that, and spent one year attending a Korean Zen Meditation center, and another year after that, attending a Guyanese Hindu Mandir (temple).

After all those experiences, I no longer felt the personal need for participation in organized religious worship. I feel content to simply read and write each day, on the topic of spirituality and religion, as well as literature and philosophy.

At different times in our lives, we have different needs. As we pass through life, change is unavoidable.  We must not be too harsh on ourselves, seeing our change as some failure to be consistent.  We see that the various established religions evolved and changed over the centuries. Certainly, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, to name just a few, changed and evolved radically over the centuries. So, if religions can change, then why should we view change in ourselves as something negative?

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scott's Comment:

"I really like this line that you posted:

"At different times in our lives, we have different needs. As we pass through life, change is unavoidable. We must not be too harsh on ourselves, seeing our change as some failure to be consistent."

Having been through more than one sect of religious thought, it's easy to trash the ones you have left behind. I know that I tend to be very critical of the ones in my own past, though I should see them as being important within the context of the time that I experienced them and quite frankly, needed them."