In Reply to: Re: I try to murmur more often posted by Believer on July 17, 2004 at 02:32:10:
I'm imperfect and will always have defects. However, with the knowledge that there is perfection in Creation and the Creator, or Great Spirit, as kinda gentler expresses it, gives me goals. I think it’s possible to use the ideal of this perfection as a motivator, so that I live each day learning to love myself more, forgive more, and grow in unconditional love for other more. The goal isn’t to attain perfection, but to have it as a goal means you’re ready, willing.
About the “faith of many ex-members having decreased” which you comment on, that implies we had real & strong faith when we were in the Family. I see my Family experience in faith as having been shallow, and often purely emotional. Since then my journey has given me a faith that I experience without the many fears that plagued when I was in the Family. Fears about whether or not I was making the grade as “a loyal Gideon’s band soldier” in the prophet David Doo’s Doo’s Endtime Army.
Since I’ve left I’ve been discovering a spirituality that’s down to earth and something that’s teaching me to live not only one day at a time but to live each moment one at a time, as a writer I like said, “Every moment of life is a new beginning.”