Church.... a energy perspective.

Church
Taking my Sunday morning bike ride is always enlightening. Like church, I believe it's a way to commune with God, but through nature, not a religious leader. I occasionally find great purpose within the church when I need the fellowship of other parishioners, the sermons, nostalgic rituals and those times when I just need to sit and listen. But as I grow older, I have found the value of long bike rides and hikes on wooded trails to give me a strong sense of God and allow me to have one on one intuitively guided conversations with God. I don't go to church services as much anymore, but I understand it's great value for us as we move through life and its unexpected hurdles. I believe the integrative approach to spirituality to lift our energy and spirits to be the most valuable route to God. Doing charitable things for others; enjoying nature; embracing our bodies and minds; staying mentally healthy; using spiritual tools and praying/meditation, I believe are prerequisites to being able to tap into God's energy and messages. If we dread going to a church service, and go anyway, it's not going to have the same spiritual value of communing with God as doing something that brings feelings of joy, hope, faith and uplifts our energy. There must never be a struggle when communing with our God. It must be an organic and natural conversation that brings hope and faith into our energy. When our conversations with God bring us relief and peaceful feelings, it is then that God's voice can access our energy and speak to us in a mutually energetic, heavenly place. Happy Sunday! Denise Lucille