Which is different from not having a clue. Something about the Heforder Vision pageant is still unclear. There is most likely an underlying Catholic reason for this. With all of my time in Catholic schools and all of my reading of Catholic literature, I am a Catholic by birth only. My friend, who was ordained a Catholic priest in the La Salette order and spent 11 years in the service of the church, but who is now a Mennonite and a counselor in a hospital, once told me my thinking was too intellectual for me to be a practicing Catholic. I've been thinking about this, since I am really not a practicing anything. The closest I come to religion is meditation, and that is not something disciplined, and results in short stories and character sketches and flights of fantasy, more so than any spirtiual enlightenment, unless love alone is enlightenment.
I took Thomas Merton's mantra to heart, some forty or more years ago. God is Love. God is Life. God is Light. For me, these are the three most important elements of existence. We all think we understand the first (a notable exception shall remain unnamed). The second needs no explanation. We experience it, and then it is gone, unless we believe otherwise. The third is, for me, finding and sharing knowledge and experience. And so is my religion. Higher power.
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