Spiritual Guides
So I'm sitting in church and I am thinking about Marie, a friend of mine. A couple of years ago I went to, for lack of a better term, a religious retreat called Cursillo. After I had made my Cursillo, I started attending prayer and sharing sessions with other cursillistas, among them was Marie. I knew Marie from around church but I wouldn't have called us friends. But over the course of many months we have become friends and for some reason, listening to her witness about her faith and her responses to my witness has become important to me. I can not fathom why what she shares should seem more important to me but it seems it is.
So while I am sitting in church, pondering this realization, I begin to think of all of the people that have had a major influence on my spiritual life. At the age of 12 I would walk to the church down the road, there I met Richie Massey. His friendship was my first contact with the spiritual. My next spiritual guide was without a doubt the biggest influence on my spirituality. I met Monica in college from the first moment we shared our beliefs, she accepted me while holding a mirror up to me so I could understand what I believed. Eventually I proposed to her and after some convincing, she accepted. This led me to my next spiritual guide. Sister Mary is, via marriage (mine not hers), not only my sister, but she is a Sister, a Nun. When I met her in my young foolishness, I knew there was something special about her, something that glowed from deep inside her. Of course my wife and her sister Mary did not come by their spirituality by chance. No walking down the road to find out about religion. No, they grew up in a family, blessed and nurtured. So to Find Mary so full of the Holy Spirit seemed natural after meeting Monica and Mary's parents, John and Pauline. Through the years, Mary has laughed with me and scolded me and generally lead me, by example, to that next place, that next understanding.
Of course there have been a number of priests, the most special to me was another person that glowed with the Holy Spirit, Fr. Tim Nelson. And then there was my first Cursillista guide, Steve. And so many more people, more than I can name here, that have had a greater and lessor effect on my faith. But as I look back at the landscape of my life, I see all of these people, like road signs placed there by God, guiding me along the path that has brought me here to today. And that path and those guide signs make me feel very special. So now I will turn and face the future and see where Marie guides me to while I watch for my next Spiritual Guide.
God Bless You and Yours
So while I am sitting in church, pondering this realization, I begin to think of all of the people that have had a major influence on my spiritual life. At the age of 12 I would walk to the church down the road, there I met Richie Massey. His friendship was my first contact with the spiritual. My next spiritual guide was without a doubt the biggest influence on my spirituality. I met Monica in college from the first moment we shared our beliefs, she accepted me while holding a mirror up to me so I could understand what I believed. Eventually I proposed to her and after some convincing, she accepted. This led me to my next spiritual guide. Sister Mary is, via marriage (mine not hers), not only my sister, but she is a Sister, a Nun. When I met her in my young foolishness, I knew there was something special about her, something that glowed from deep inside her. Of course my wife and her sister Mary did not come by their spirituality by chance. No walking down the road to find out about religion. No, they grew up in a family, blessed and nurtured. So to Find Mary so full of the Holy Spirit seemed natural after meeting Monica and Mary's parents, John and Pauline. Through the years, Mary has laughed with me and scolded me and generally lead me, by example, to that next place, that next understanding.
Of course there have been a number of priests, the most special to me was another person that glowed with the Holy Spirit, Fr. Tim Nelson. And then there was my first Cursillista guide, Steve. And so many more people, more than I can name here, that have had a greater and lessor effect on my faith. But as I look back at the landscape of my life, I see all of these people, like road signs placed there by God, guiding me along the path that has brought me here to today. And that path and those guide signs make me feel very special. So now I will turn and face the future and see where Marie guides me to while I watch for my next Spiritual Guide.
God Bless You and Yours
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