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You give me so much food for thought with your writing, I thank you for it. Never have I contemplated so much on the divine. It's certainly a maze and finding faith and holding it true to our hearts is a humbling and inspiring journey, I am finding. Just yesterday a good friend of mine shared this video. He's a Christian and someone who has been connected with Christianity all of his life. His faith is solid and his knowledge impressive and at times a little too much for little old me. I watched this video just after reading your article (no coincidence I think :) ) and it is exactly how I see it all, since my spiritual awakening I had which you know about of course. I have been writing a song about God, about the Lord, I mentioned this to you too and it's leading me to even more contemplation. It's probably my best solo work yet, though there's not much competition yet considering this solo path started in January of this year, along with playing the guitar.. haha. So, thank you because this latest song came from your sharing with me of a passage from the Bible. I write all of this because it really struck me what you wrote about the dullness felt in church. I grew up Catholic and went to church a lot and I cannot agree more. Still now, I struggle in churches. The energy is stifled, somehow dead and rings untrue to me, yet the buildings themselves are vibrant and you can feel the Divine all around. The part in this video which I feel might give even more food for thought to this matter of dullness and what churches have become is when Watts talks about what churches are meant to be about - being still and CONTEMPLATING... CON TEMPLUM.... A Temple, a Church, is a place for silence and contemplation and not lecturing. It has become an instrument of control by the fallen angels who govern the religious world of Christianity now, I feel. Perhaps if we can seek out the silence within these Temples we can find our connection with God once more?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avN_gQ7NC0I

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