You know, I do firmly believe I am spiritual. I've spent years in the church (yippee painful) - still believe in Jesus - but I also believe in a whole lot more. Church didn't work for me - thankfully, Jesus said we didn't have to be in church to worship God. I also have a very expansive view of God while the church (my experience of it) had a rather narrow view of God. Living up to ideals - while ideal - is not real. We are who we are and we do strive to better ourselves but at the end of the day, we are human beings too. If we could stay on a spiritual plane and be perfect all the time, why would we have bothered coming here to this physical plane? This is an experience! This world, life, physical joys, pleasures, and pain... All of it ... it is one hell of a trip.

What about you? What is your view on spirituality? Do you remember when you were very young - asking questions about:

• Why are we here?
• Where did we come from?
• Where do we go when we die?
• What happens to us when we die?
• How did all of this wonder and beauty get created?

I know I did... I asked lots of those questions until the system finally shut-it all down with the statement - There is no why!!! It just IS!!!  But I honestly believe the innocence of youth has a sense of something greater that brings these questions up... our adulthood systems of education, politics, and materialistic fulfillment have deadened those senses.

So tell me what you believe - what questions you remember asking.... I want to know!!