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In Cath-O-Land we are celebrating Holy Trinity Sunday. So many Sundays we celebrate more of what God has done for us rather than just celebrating that God is. Of course the atheists among us might think I am delusional (I am, but for other reasons more confirmable) 😉and others might think questions of the religion are more a source of division in humanity than a unifying reality.

Divisions among people seem inescapable, there are no vaccinations or procedures to magically cure this inherited or perhaps default reality. Add to that, that introspection, internal dialogue and anything beyond surface reflection have been supplanted by distraction and vapid superficiality. It is enough to make one feel rather despondent. It is an additional burden if you are one who is burdened and blessed with an internal dialogue that rarely rests.

It is more of a blessing than a burden. Healthier internal dialogue benefits from a few things, at least for me. First, season it with humor, at one's self, then at the oddly functioning circus that is humanity and finally all the things revealed, discovery or stumbled across in humanities pilgrimage through time. Second, befriend questions, doubts and skepticism as a road to learning and perhaps understanding. Living in the tension of being settled and unsettled, knowledgeable but ignorant, wise and yet unsurprisingly stupid is a better way to go than absolute certainty or unassailable doubt.

For me, the belief that there is a deeper call to communion that exist beyond all divisions is one of my greatest hopes. And I believe that it is a call that does not lead to the abnegation of self as much as its conversion and completion. I try to avoid the word perfection, it seems to tilt too much back toward the absolute certainty side of zealotry.

Religion as imperfect as it is, is typically an invitation to communion. Pick your flavor. For those not into group dynamics or rightly paranoid of them, spirituality or personal faith is usually that path. Personal spirituality and individualistic faith can be just as healthy or unhealthy as religious engagement, just more difficult to diagnose or observe since it occurs on the more personal level rather than a more readily observable group with defined creeds, rituals and what-haves.

I get a little chaffy at times when I hear people say they are "spiritual" and not religious if it carries a tone of dismissal for us poor religious saps. Most don't seem to mean it that way, but enough do. I can't imagine being authentically spiritual and it not leading you connect with at least a handful of people. If spirituality is not leading you to some Other (Divine, human or otherwise) is it just a mirror? We know how those playout from the old fairy tales.

Anyways - my fellow humanoids, Happy Trinity Sunday, may the Communion I try to love, honor and serve bless you all on whatever path you find yourself. Human-kind: Be both.