A Heart Longing After God

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Anyone else finding that after recent craziness in world events, that you are feeling sort of an empty spot in your spirit?

I'm feeling a rekindled deep longing after God. I've forgotten so much, biblically, after being sick, suffering a brain injury, the churches all being closed down, and just general awfulness in the news.

I've been praying so much lately. And just seeking after what God means in my life. And what's needed to change in my behavior and thoughts.

 

[Slime_Punk]

I think spirituality is more important than ever right now, and having a connection (or many) to the divine means more right now than it might've ever meant in the past, especially with the media being the way it is right now and how manipulated a lot of people can become by it.

I had an empty spot in my spirit long before politics and the mainstream went completely absurd, and 2020 really made me come back to spirit-nurturing practices and I've never regretted it once.

So for me, my god is very much alive and well. I don't need a church to communicate with him and her, because now I have direct channels to it.

 

[Hazel_1914]

I guess it's been similar here but it has been different as well. It's always different, based on each person.
I am becoming far more skeptical than I was, because I am trying to get a better handle on the whole God thing. I've been in & out of a sort of crisis of faith. It's really hard to explain. Long story short, I figured out that a religious leader my family really liked was kind of weird/charlatanish. Anyway that's a whole big deal.

Then there is the question of the Catholic religious practice. I'm trying to actually make it work out. I am in the middle of ironing out different issues regarding authority in the church--which hasn't gone over well in real life with friends. It's super weird trying to basically end up working on an understanding of God-as-spirit instead of God-as-mythology.
I've been getting more & more skeptical and at the same time trying to adjust & inform my understanding of religion. One thing is for sure I've been cutting off the Gordian knot binding me to "traditionalism" (or to a fundamentalist, heavily Americanized Catholicism.) If it's super political and calls itself religious, I'm against it--There's probably a lot of "Good Catholic People" to come out of the wood-work and tell me I'm going to hell, but I ought to know; hell is here already and I'm actually doing better out of this.
I have to get things figured out and I'm tired of people nattering about it, like the only questions that I'm allowed to care about are the ones already answered. If it's really true religion like everyone says, it should be healthy for you, not hurt people.