Deep apologies friends. My schedule the last few weeks has been full; I’ve had no time to write, barely time to read a few emails each day. So I am near the end of Sunday with nothing left in my tank. I did however, see a post from Naomi Wolf this morning, which I will quote and direct you to next. Please do stay safe and sane; our world is lacking much of both right now.
“I must stress that when I say "sin", I did not understand this notion in the classical sense of shame in front of the Divine, or of the Divine's disgust with us. There is almost no word for what I mean here instead of "sin" in the presence of this being. Imagine a word that encapsulates a horrible, self-sabotaging, regrettable mess. There was great love and compassion and understanding surrounding the human-ness of this dark gunk, these bad choices. But I did see that the complicating, deadening, darkening consequences of bad choices were inevitable; the grime or residue that resulted from our bad choices was part of the natural law governing how we were made and governing the moral universe into which we humans were born.”