Plundering my religious upbringing - The desert island question

[St. SteVen]

While composing a response post on another thread (obviously) it occurred to me the benefits I received from my religious upbringing.

I spend plenty of time talking against it now, but only occasionally speak to the benefits.

Others may have taken a similar path. Started in one place and ended up somewhere else.

So, here's the question: In your spiritual journey,
- what did you take with you and
- what did you leave behind?

How do you answer the desert island question?

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[Lambano]

So, here's the question: In your spiritual journey,
- what did you take with you and
- what did you leave behind?

I left the need for certainty back at the house.
I took with me the need to trust.

So surrender the hunger to say, "I must know!",
Have the courage to say, "I believe!"
For the power of paradox opens your eyes,
And blinds those who say they can see

(Michael Card, God's own Fool)

 

[St. SteVen]

From the OP.

While composing a response post on another thread (obviously) it occurred to me the benefits I received from my religious upbringing.

I spend plenty of time talking against it now, but only occasionally speak to the benefits.

Others may have taken a similar path. Started in one place and ended up somewhere else.

So, here's the question: In your spiritual journey,
- what did you take with you and
- what did you leave behind?

How do you answer the desert island question?

]

 

[St. SteVen]

While composing a response post on another thread (obviously) it occurred to me the benefits I received from my religious upbringing.

I spend plenty of time talking against it now, but only occasionally speak to the benefits.

Others may have taken a similar path. Started in one place and ended up somewhere else.

So, here's the question: In your spiritual journey,
- what did you take with you and
- what did you leave behind?

How do you answer the desert island question?

]

 

[Pearl]

- what did you take with you

I took myself - the self who has the potential to be as God planned for me to be through Jesus.

- what did you leave behind?

I left behind the old me, the self who was separated from God.