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A friend shared this article with me recently and I really liked it. I remember after I became inactive and left the church, it felt like I had lost my spiritual identity. But, then I realized I was not just a Mormon, but a Christian as well and I had not lost that. On today’s Doves and Serpents: Diversifying your spiritual portfolio. Love the premise here. Truth–and our Savior–can be found in many places. And that’s exactly how it’s supposed to be. I believe that other amazing people have touched the divine truths of life such as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Buddha, so I try to learn more about their teachings too.”
http://www.dovesandserpents.org/wp/2012/09/diversify-your-spiritual-identity-portfolio/ Interesting site. Thank you for sharing it. This is off-topic, but “portfolio” triggered the thought. We see over and over and over again a certain portrait of Christ in the church. So often that I have wondered if that particular image on nearly every piece of paper and wall we touch doesn’t border on nonchalance and irreverence. Why? When there are so many images of the Savior, why are we so attached to one? Not a crucial thing, to be sure. Just kind of discouraging and somewhat representative of less trival things. I agree wholeheartedly with this article. Especially the phrase “It’s the nature of any organization to look for the good of the whole at the expense of the individual. ” And the part about eventually feeling betrayed by the organization, which I have felt many times. Funny, years ago, I started calling myself a Mormon Christian. Some people objected to that, saying it implies there are Mormons who are NOT Christian. Which I thought was a lame argument. Now, I just say I belong to a Christian religion, sometimes calling it a more conservative Christian religion for people want more information. And lately, I’ve also taken to calling myself a spiritually liberal Mormon within Christianity. Also, an unorthodox Mormon, which expands on it even further.
But the article is well taken — focusing on compartmentalizing our roles and not letting any single role define ourselves and our entire life.
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