Boxes, Religion, and Truth
Boxes. I hate feeling pushed into someone else’s. Yet I realize how quick I am to throw out people and ideas that don’t fit into mine. Religion. It’s received somewhat of a bad name. I know and hear of many people who feel they have to go “beyond” religion to find meaning, spirituality, or even God. Is religion just another box? Truth. It can seem threatened by those things that attempt to break down the walls of the “boxes” in religion. Does that mean “truth” is just another box? Or could it be deeper, broader, and different? Admittedly, something in me likes things to stay in neat and tidy boxes. I search for order, borders, and appropriate separations. Right versus wrong. Good versus bad. Appropriate versus inappropriate. I long to be someone that stands for truth and lives with conviction. But sometimes, ignorance of truth and or lack of conviction are easily filled with religious norms a...