The One Where Lisa Gets Preachy...
D o you consider yourself to be religious or spiritual? For many years I considered them to be mutually exclusive. If you weren't religious, how could you possibly experience spirituality? How did you categorize it? To whom did you attribute the moment? My religion defined God--it gave him a face, a body, a personality, and from that I knew who looked down upon me at night as I uttered my evening prayers. When I had a spiritual moment, I could see who had blessed me with that opportunity. It was clear, so very clear. And then one day it wasn't anymore. After a lifetime of being a devout christian I became disillusioned with organized religion and God and I separated myself from both. And that was hard, so very hard. It was then that I began to consider whether or not religion and spirituality were in fact mutually exclusive. Could I still feel indescribable joy, or a burning in my soul, if I was no longer a member of a certain fait