God can handle it!

RantWoman is certain her readers need a travelogue from today's excursion to Planet RantWoman. RantWoman is certain readers need this at least as much as:

--multiple stomach churning meanderings through the electoral landscape.

--meditations about whether it is unseemly to root for Russian bombers getting blown up on Ukrainian tarmac just as one would root for one's fave team at a football game

--waves and waves of Twitterverse fireworks generated by the new #ChiefTwit

Round 1, not counting international Meeting for Worship related to Ukraine.

The queries:

1. What image of the divine/God/light/spirit most resonates with you?

2. When do you call on or use your image of the divine?

3. What are you learning or what would you like to learn about the divine?

Video that was supposed to seed worship: Images of God video from Godly Play Series

RantWoman needs to channel the beloved Sybil Bayles here. The sound is REALLY Crappy and Zoom auto-captioning is entertaining as long as RantWoman has no interest in whether the auto captions correspond to what is being said and as long as RantWoman can make it big enough both to read and to cover up visual content that RantWoman, even with bad eyes that theoretically might like simplicity just finds insipid! In other words, this video would NOT make RantWoman feel included and likely would NOT kindly dispose her toward Quakerism.

RantWoman said most of that out loud. RantWoman also said part of her image of the Divine is that "God can handle that."

RantWoman also resonated with comments about energy, boundlessness, connection, witchy leanings, and religious trauma right next to the wells of divine.

RantWoman did not say that the video evoked a number of less than spiritually inspiring, just BORING and socially unpleasant,  threads from Sunday school of her youth. 

Next round of queries, on silence

         How does Silence Harm ?

         How does Silence Minister ?

Words which emerged either out loud or ... : harm of self, harm of others, silencing, worship of silence as opposed to silent worship and expectant waiting.

Further reading RantWoman looks forward to more fully digesting. The Goddess called silence

Later in not silence: a leading about spiritual / religious diversity among Quakers.

No one told me not to say "Jesus."

--Can one craft an invocation that is inclusive of Christians, Jews, Muslims?

--If the person finding someone to do an invocation goes straight to Jesus language and the person asked to provide an invocation cannot fathom an invocation, should anyone be surprised if Jesus shows up? And what if Jesus shows up from all those times in the Gospels where Jesus one day works among Jews and another day does the same work among non-Jews?

--Should there even be an invocation at all?

--Ummm, should we call up the Chair of the national Multicultural Affairs Committee for thoughts about religious pluralism?

STAY TUNED. God can handle it!

And finally

because a lot of RantWoman's experience of the divine is about music, being surrounded by music, being enthralled whether or not one finds all the words congenial. Almost any form of music though well-rehearsed is even better.

Compline on the Feast of all saints. Do not bring up the fact that Reformation Sunday, Halloween, Samhain, All Saints Day, Day of the dead have already trundled by on the calendar