In five minutes or less

I don't remember whether I've mentioned here that Misha and I have started the process of becoming members of our local Unitarian Universalist church. Last week was our first "Beginners" class, where we'll be learning more about Unitarianism and about the history and practices of the congregation, and getting to know the ministers as well as our fellow "Beginners."

And also, apparently, where we will be telling the story of our spiritual journey in five minutes or less.

This was a task sprung on the group without warning. Apparently some people have a coherent spiritual journey, one they're actually capable of explaining on short notice and in five minutes or... well, more. (Apparently, keeping to a time schedule is not a Unitarian strong suit.) (I did notice that the spiritual journeys of the first few people who spoke were much, much shorter than the spiritual journeys of people who were sitting further along the circle and thus had more time to prepare.)

They didn't get to me (or Misha) before time was up, so we're supposed to go this week. That's given me a week to think about the question. Starting with, "Hey, wait a minute - doesn't 'journey' imply a destination?"

So maybe tomorrow night I'll say something like this:
( in five minutes or less... )