[1958] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Something I lost....
jtidwell@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtidwell@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 13 02:54:38 1991
OK, here's my two cents... I drifted out of the Baha'i community for a
while, for the same reason. I think one reason that I'm holding so
strictly to the Fast now (when I haven't in past years) is that I'm
trying to recover *something* - self-confidence, for starters, but something
more than that, too.
I guess the relevant part of what I'm trying to say is that I'm doing
the reverse of what you're doing, Rhu: I'm using the ritual to help
pull myself back into a stronger faith. If it doesn't work, it doesn't
work, but it's worth a try... (Yes, I know that the ritual alone isn't
going to do the trick - it just helps!)
whatever.
