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Jul. 30th, 2007 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaI've realized that one of the things that makes SUUSI a good experience for me is a higher religious content than I get in my everyday life. I liked starting out my day with a ministerial Theme Talk and breaking for a worship service after dinner. That level of involvement would be way too much for my normal life, obviously, but since I got back from SUUSI I've really been thinking about ways of incorporating religious experience into my daily life.
There have been times in the past that I've decided to meditate regularly, or something similar. That never works. I don't have the time or space in my life for that, and - to be honest - I don't have the discipline to make time and space. If incorporating religious practice in my life requires finding twenty uninterrupted minutes when I don't have anything else I'd rather be doing (that's the hard part)... it's not going to happen. So I needed to find other alternatives.
Michael and I decided to start a family practice of saying grace before dinner. The inspiration for this was Alex coming home from nursery school repeating a non-theist grace they sing before lunch. I hadn't really thought about there being UU-appropriate graces out there, but I liked the idea. So we've picked two sung graces to begin with, the one Alex brought home and another one that I found online, and each evening we intend to hold hands and sing grace before we eat. We'll see how that goes.
I've also been experimenting with listening to religious material on my iPod during my morning commute - either music, or sermon/essay podcasts. It feels like a good way to start the day, but I'm not sure how well it will wear.
I'd be interested to know whether and how other people incorporate religion or spirituality into their everyday life. Do you have a regular religious or spiritual practice? Do you want one?
There have been times in the past that I've decided to meditate regularly, or something similar. That never works. I don't have the time or space in my life for that, and - to be honest - I don't have the discipline to make time and space. If incorporating religious practice in my life requires finding twenty uninterrupted minutes when I don't have anything else I'd rather be doing (that's the hard part)... it's not going to happen. So I needed to find other alternatives.
Michael and I decided to start a family practice of saying grace before dinner. The inspiration for this was Alex coming home from nursery school repeating a non-theist grace they sing before lunch. I hadn't really thought about there being UU-appropriate graces out there, but I liked the idea. So we've picked two sung graces to begin with, the one Alex brought home and another one that I found online, and each evening we intend to hold hands and sing grace before we eat. We'll see how that goes.
I've also been experimenting with listening to religious material on my iPod during my morning commute - either music, or sermon/essay podcasts. It feels like a good way to start the day, but I'm not sure how well it will wear.
I'd be interested to know whether and how other people incorporate religion or spirituality into their everyday life. Do you have a regular religious or spiritual practice? Do you want one?
