Awake My Soul: My First Year as an Episcopalian November 14, 2011
Posted by Matt in Awake My Soul.Tags: church of christ, spiritual experience, The Episcopal Church
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If not for love I would be drowning
I’ve seen it work both ways, but I am up
Riding high amongst the waves
I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved
I can feel like I
Put away my early grave
Gotta say it now
Better loud than too late.
(“Amongst the Waves,” Pearl Jam)
The upcoming season of Advent is one of the holiest on the liturgical calendar, but for our family it has even more meaning than the commemoration of Jesus’s birth, it marks the beginning of our new life in the Episcopal Church.
The last few years have been interesting ones to say the least, both for my personal spirituality and for the future of our family. In 2009 I wrote quite extensively about my spiritual journey from the Fundamentalism of youth to our first steps away from the denomination in which we were raised, the Church of Christ. It was a deeply personal series and, along with the support garnered along the way, it helped us to begin the journey anew, to follow paths uncharted and perhaps find our way out of the wilderness.
The purpose of this series will be to tell our story from the past year, to look back and describe our feelings and experiences, to see where we (or at least I) are today on this lifelong spiritual quest, this search for truth and significance. I don’t purport to have any answers or to even ask the right questions, but this can at least give you a small glimpse into the gloriously messy state of affairs, our struggles and where we are today. I hope you will join me on the journey.
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