Spirit

I went to the Center for Spiritual Living today with two of my most beautiful friends. I had heard about this place first from C who is the happiest person I have ever met, someone who truly embraces life and love. I wanted to experience it because I strive for her outlook on life. I grew up going to church; have been baptized and confirmed, so I was pretty familiar with the general idea of what was going to happen. The service started out with some wonderful music and then the Dr. stood up to speak. The idea behind the center is that Love is in all of us and is what connects us all. One of the things that really stood out to me was the idea that on a primitive level we as humans are positive. We may at some point fall into darkness but it is in our nature to be positive and hopeful, expectant that things are going to get better. At this point during the service I thought to myself, I think I'm too cynical for this place.

The woman was a very good speaker though I found it a little hard to follow her train of thought at some point. Despite this a lot of what she said really hit home for me, I liked the principles that it doesn't matter who you are, what you look like or where you come from, we are all connected through love. I have always been a person to say no before yes, I'm not sure if it is a protective mechanism and also not sure where it comes from. Even with my disposition to be negative all of the people at the Center were so positive it was hard to not be uplifted.

Overall I feel a little confused with the Center, I want to love it a lot because the idea behind it is so positive. However, if I'm being truthful with myself then I need to accept that I am a realist at heart. I can see the benefit in the Center but I doubt I will be come a regular, at the end of the day it is still a church.

I decided a long time ago that my spirituality is a personal thing and I don't need to visit a certain place on a certain day to affirm that.