Going Back To My First Blog

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

I'm tired of religion! I know I'm not supposed to say that... but I feel it! I have been around long enough to know that part of our human nature is that inner drive for meaning... a desire to answer some type of cosmic call. Since the dawn of human life this inner drive has always been observed to be satisfied by religion. But somehow something happens in this human process. Given a period of time, religion that is fiery like a molten lava begins to cool off and harden into rock... cold and unfeeling. The tragedy about this is that this fiery lava of rich spiritual and even supernatural experience is the very center of our inner healing. It is that burning presence that allows us to deal with every human trauma: physical, spiritual, and even psychic. So name your trauma... this cosmic fire we call Divine presence can heal you! Name your dark addiction... this burning flow of supernatural experience will make you whole! But sadly enough the claim that religion is what we are talking about brings that tragic story of molten lava hardening into rock. Perhaps our churches, mosques, temples, and synangogues have just become that... a hard, solid, and cold rock that still behaves and acts like it is fiery, molten, and burning lava where all it is is anything but. So here's an idea... not original but an idea anyway, what if we keep the lava burning. What if we refuse to allow this cosmic fire to harden into rock? What if we vow that we will not allow this fire to cool off into hard rock for the sake of the divine healing our human heart so desperately needs? This is what TheraForum is all about. It stands for therapy and forum.... the arena where healing of every kind can find its home through the process of community.... voices that join together in a forum of discussion and sharing... where we stoke that divine fire... where we keep that supernatural lava flowing! Then perhaps Lord willing we will not become a religion... that cold, hard, and oppressive thing that weighs us down. Perhaps we will become what religion is supposed to be: the experience of a reality that is beyond ourselves and yet holds the key to our healing... our sanity. Take the first step towards your healing!