{"id":2363,"date":"2019-04-07T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakinguprevolution.com\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2019-04-07T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T11:32:14","slug":"spiritualhome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/spiritualhome\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Spiritual Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I made it back to the Atlantic Ocean this week! \ud83d\ude42 I am on the road performing – started in Cordova, TN (outside of Memphis); had a day to drive 840 miles for a concert in Warminster, PA (outside of Philly); scooched over to Vineland, NJ, and a day later drove another 840 miles to Chicagoland where I am now. Luckily, David Langley is with me, and he is doing all of the driving, so it\u2019s been a fun and insightful trip (and musically very, very enjoyable!).<\/p>\n

Usually, I don\u2019t take time off when I\u2019m on a tour. If we aren\u2019t visiting with our hosts, there is always office work to be done. But we were so close to the Ocean that I couldn\u2019t possibly avoid a short detour. Plus, David had never been to the legendary Atlantic City Boardwalk.<\/p>\n

We had a wonderful lunch overlooking the ocean\u2026 and talked about God, faith, history, and the importance of finding a \u2018spiritual home\u2019\u2026 (David has been on a beautiful faith journey and was looking for a church where he would feel a sense of belonging.)<\/p>\n

I answered David\u2019s questions with a disclaimer that my thoughts and my experience of God and the Divine are my own – I believe that each of us is on a unique spiritual path and that God is present and available to all. I tried to be sensitive about not influencing him with my opinions.<\/p>\n

I looked at the Ocean, which reminded me that while each of us needs some space to be alone and still with God – out there where there are no distractions – we also need each other to survive the storms.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important we have a community where we can experience \u201cGod in skin,\u201d where we feel accepted and comfortable to show up \u2018as is\u2019 – at times filled with joy and at times broken with sadness and grief. Humans need a \u2018village\u2019 as a support system that will carry us through stressful times and make us casseroles (or salads) when we aren\u2019t able to make them ourselves. \ud83d\ude09 And in a community, we learn how to reach out to others and take care of those in need.<\/p>\n

When I was growing up, my \u2018village\u2019 was my family (we all lived very close to each other) and my neighborhood. When I moved to America, I realized it was different here. People move away from their families and everything is a lot farther apart than in Europe. So a lot of people find their \u2018village\u2019 in their faith communities (or for us immigrants, in cultural clubs), which sometimes takes away an opportunity to be exposed to different cultures and faiths.<\/p>\n

I grew up in a country where religion and faith were very private. We didn\u2019t know who was Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish or atheist. My friends and I were guided by the very same principles of loving God and our neighbor as ourselves (which we learned at home). We didn\u2019t look for what could have divided and separated us from each other. Our traditions helped us build a strong sense of community, and our history helped us to keep in mind how destructive divisions, greed for power and fear of each other can be. (Croatia is located in a part of the world where Christianity split in 1054, and where many battles with Ottoman Empire were fought in the 15th and 16th centuries.)<\/p>\n

I guess that\u2019s probably why I\u2019ve always been drawn to Franciscan spirituality\u2026 I\u2019ve always liked that they, like us on this tour, travelled around, stayed with people, shared of themselves and broke bread.<\/p>\n

To be able to have a \u2018village\u2019 and a community – and an open heart that sees God\u2019s presence in every part of God\u2019s creation – is to find our spiritual home.<\/p>\n

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