Answers for Amqu

A couple of weeks ago, amqu responded to my Old Time Religion post with several challenging questions. My spiritual path has a lot of ambiguity in it, and when faced with her very good but hard-to-answer questions, the Queen of Swords went into a panic. After all, if I couldn’t answer them all, immediately, in a compelling manner that would convince her that my faith and my reason were sound, there was something wrong with me and my path, right?!?!

When we rational types get irrational, we go all the way.

It took me several days to get up my courage to re-read her questions. And I still couldn’t answer them quickly. It took a conversation with both my spiritual director and my priestess teacher to talk myself around to the point of seeing her questions as a valuable opportunity to clarify certain topics in my own mind, and accept that fact that due to the differences in our beliefs, it’s entirely possible that the answers that work for me might not be valid for her. And that’s okay. Neither amqu nor I have ever asked or expected the other to change her beliefs because they are different from our own.

So, after a two week delay, here are my answers to her questions.

Quotes from my original entry are in italics. amqu’s questions are in bold. My answers are in plain type.

Feel free to jump in and join the discussion.

( Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves )

Invasion!

My daughter is having her very first "girls' night in" at our house -- a spontaneous gathering, I should add.

For the past ten minutes or so, four girls ranging in age from seven to eleven have been swirling around my living space, asking questions about my treadmill, my altar, the food in our cupboards, and etc. My daughter has been reigning over it all, making a virgin pina colada smoothie to share, offering other drinks, getting out ravioli and potato chips.

(All of this while I was trying to proofread my last post, I might add.)

Just as I was about to start feeling seriously outnumbered, they swirled upstairs to my daughter's room, where I expect they will stay for an hour or so.


Yes, I'm delighted that she has friends so close, that they seem to be very nice, and that she has a clean, comfortable place of her own to hang out with them.