Experience

RantWoman started this while deep in the throes of another round of her planning committee habit. RantWoman is unsure whether she needs a 12-step program for this or whether she is just supposed to think of herself like one of those herding dogs who get neurotic if they are not allowed to herd something. Maybe RantWoman will just go with "when the Goddess kicks you in the Butt..."

This time RantWoman has been helping plan the Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting. RantWoman's fingers have been abuzz with one of those Event Planning ISSUES that sometimes makes such work so colorful but saying more about that topic at this point would definitely be telling too much of the Truth. Truth is on the agenda at a public meeting, and by the time of the meeting, RantWoman will be clearer what she is led to blog of.

Meanwhile, RantWoman is going to speak from the exalted heights of Experience, experience forming and tending to worship sharing / spiritual sharing groups.

RantWoman is feeling nostalgic for the lengthy days of last summer when she had only to make very simple choices about which category of Worship Sharing group she wanted to participate in, worship sharing or worship discussion.

http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2010/05/path-to-spiritual-perfection.html


RantWoman has been reflecting about how choices sometimes just add complexity. Merely adding gender for instance causes Friends in RantWoman's orbit to emit sentiments ranging from "I will become twitchy and uncomfortable if I am the only person of my gender in a worship sharing group" to "I will be twitchy and uncomfortable if I am in a worship sharing group whose members are all the same gender" to "What's gender and may I provide Walking Encyclopedia service on the question?"

But RantWoman's Quarterly Meeting planning predecessors do not stop at choices about worship sharing or worship discussion plus divergent views about gender distribution. No, no, no, in order to talk about Simplicity, Clarity, and Integrity in the electronic age, attenders are expected to choose also from sharing or discussion while sitting, simply walking, or hiking. Attenders may also add music though mercifully no one has thought to ask about standing on one's head, wading in the rushing creek, rolling around in onion soup powder, or participating via Skype.

Next we come to queries. Again, RantWoman waded into the work stream far enough to interact several times, in person and via email. RantWoman THINKS she was not the only person trying at the in-person round to make a couple points that did not quite make it into the final version of the queries. In this vein, RantWoman however finds it refreshing merely to reflect on people having trouble hearing and to branch out from one person to others challenged in the same area.

RantWoman also notes that ranting does not in the least mitigate the fact that RantWoman had a wonderful deeply nourishing and gratifying experience in her worship sharing group, some kind of a let God be in charge thought at the very least.