This Mormon Life

Just Sharing . . .

I came across this on Jana Remy's blog today and I just wanted to share it with others.  She talks a bit about her spiritual journey and she ends with a quote from Terry Tempest Williams' book Leap:

Spirituality is solitary...At times, it is lonely, often informed by pain. On other occasions, it is the body submerged in a phosphorescent tide, every movement sparking a trail of illumination. Afterwards, we sit on the shore in moonlight. No candles are necessary. Spirituality exists when we are present, buoyed up by the waters of attention. We learn the courage of faith. It is peace that is earned. We can take solace in the heat of doubt knowing this is the pulse of poetry.

A Mormon Agnostic

The more I learn, the less I know. 

This may seem like a cliched statement to make, but the more I have delved into church history over the last 15 years of my life, the less I really know what probably happened in reality to those people we call prophets and apostles. This is a fact of history, since sources are multi-various, scant, conflicting, and always up for a diversity of interpretation.

So what I have done for the past 15 years is leave things in a tentative intellectual state, letting events and personalities remain in paradox and puzzle – unwilling to make a decision or judge what may or may not be.

To dream. To re-create. To faith.

In writing about my personal life, I do so with apprehension. I have usually kept this blog about things that are outside of myself, at a comfortable intellectual distance.  But I feel compelled to write.  Usually people will only hear what they want to, but sometimes a dialogue with the LDS blog community may be beneficial for my own journey.  And sometimes you just have to get things off your chest.