i read that passage in the context that perhaps to believe in a higher power might be comforting, esp in trying times & at end-of-life. i sometimes feel that way...i’d like to think that i won’t just disappear when i die...i now find comfort in the thought that my energy will disperse throughout the universe...it IS…

oops, saw the ghandi mentions after i posted...‘I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.’

i believe that is a dalai lama quote.

my dad was a portuguese catholic & mom a lutheran, so of course mom was forced to promise to raise any children catholic, & we were. no bad experiences at all - as a matter of fact, some rather fond ones - but the idea of some big guy in the sky never made much sense to me. then, as i got older, the rigidity &…