The Way

Let me tell you how I found the path.

Really, I suppose it started because I was quite a stubborn, opinionated, do-it-myself girl. Not necessarily rebellious, but I certainly didn’t conform to the status quo. I always made my own way because I never seemed to fit the mold that anyone else fit – or, more importantly – the mold everyone else thought I should fit as well.

I remember clearly thinking when I was about 8 years old that I was totally in the wrong family. I always felt like the third wheel, like I wasn’t good enough or like the proverbial black sheep. I knew my views were different and I also knew that I couldn’t voice them to anyone else. I suppose that’s what kept me where I was for so long.

But I’m still not all the way out of the broom closet.

I don’t think it’s fear – like I mentioned before, I could really care less at this point of my life what others think of me. I’m secure in my own skin. No, it’s not fear. It’s more like peace. It keeps the peace. And I’m a peacemaker. Always the peacemaker. Ever since I can remember, I’ve always been the mediator, making sure everyone gets along. Never could stand fighting or arguing.

I had read the Bible cover to cover three or four times by the time I was 12 or so and I always just thought something was missing. I loved history, loved learning about different parts of the world outside my own door. That’s likely what started me on the journey. I’m also one of those people who has to do whatever it is because I can’t stand not knowing, can’t stand the thought of what could have been. So I have to try everything at least once.

That meant reading and learning about history, world religions, culture, and everything in between. It’s been a continuous study all these years. And I’m still studying, still learning. Because I think that when we cease to learn, we cease to truly live.

That same passion to know, to understand and have no regrets has lead me to love. Love of the earth, my fellow human-kind no matter the color of his or her skin, love for the world around me, the differences and the opportunities they represent. It’s lead me to embrace the Spirit in all things.

And I’ve learned there is magic in living and the life we make.

I didn’t stumble onto this path as many others have. I was lead here, compelled here through a deep connection and reverence for all of life. It was a Natural becoming.

There could be no other Way.

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Merry Meet!

Walking the Path . . .

I’ve had this blog for a while and didn’t know what to write but I decided this week that I’m going to simply just write about my path. If you want to follow along, please be my guest.

So then . . . Let me start at the beginning – wherever that was.

I’ve always considered myself a spiritual person, most likely because we attended Church when I was a child. For a while, I was probably a pretty fundamental Christian although I never truly believed the way many of my peers seemed to in that respect. For example, that gays are going to hell simply for the fact they are gay. I never understood that. I never understood how one could call themselves a Christian and yet not be “like Christ” – as I thought was the main concept.

So as a teenager, I began to change my views and strangely, that lead me further away from the Church instead closer to it. As an adult I have been fairly conscious of my spirituality but never put a name to that path. Sure, I attended Church now and then but often, I felt more down-trodden than lifted up. The experience always left a bad taste in my mouth as I found I just didn’t see to eye to eye with everyone else.

I guess it must have been about 10 years ago that I truly felt there was something more than just religious dogma and that I fell outside the Church’s perceptions. Now, I always knew I saw things differently – even as a child sitting in Sunday school. But I always pushed that notion away like it was a bad smell. I think that was mostly because the Church said I had to. As an adult though, I’ve learned that the Church isn’t always right.

I know there may be some out there who argue with me or who will not accept what I am saying. That’s ok. This is about MY path, not theirs and at this point in my life, I could really care less what others think of me. I’ve found the spirituality, like anything else, is in the eye of the beholder. Each person has his or her own truth and what may be right for me isn’t right for someone else and vice versa. That doesn’t make anyone wrong. Just different. And that’s really not so bad in the grand scheme of things.

Anyway, today I follow a nature based path and have probably for at least 10 years. I didn’t always know what it was called, though. I just did what felt natural to me. A few years ago, I found a name for that path. And since I really began studying, I’ve had one “aha” moment after another which makes me feel I am definitely on the right path.

This blog is about that path and the road it’s taken. Stop by again and follow along!

Blessed Be,
Raynefire
(Emerald Raynefire Phoenix)