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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My faith has been tested by unimaginable trauma. What I believe now is a personal spirituality that is loosely based on the religion of my childhood (an Eastern religion), but is more accurately described as my own personal theology, which is how I understand the God and Existence. I don't require anyone else to share my beliefs, nor do I advertise my beliefs.
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I am similar to you, though I describe my experience a bit differently.  I had many experiences as a child and teenager that tested my faith in the (also Eastern) religion in which I was raised, but they did not shake it.  In fact, I even remember speaking about this once in a class when discussing religion, and I said difficult experiences made my faith stronger.  I felt I was being given challenges which made me a stronger and better person.  But ultimately, I experienced a trauma that I simply could not reconcile with a belief in God as I had understood it in the past.  Or, more accurately, the only way to reconcile it was to believe that I was such a horrible person deserving of what happened to me that I couldn't go on living.

For a while I was more agnostic in my beliefs, but also felt quite wayward.  I then undertook a period of spiritual curiosity, if you will, attending religious services with friends and talking to them about their own faith.  Ultimately, I've found myself in a place where I am in no way religious, but I ascribe to my own personal spirituality.

It works for me, though I'm coming upon the time when I will have to discuss it with my kids.  And that's going to be a bit more confusing.  I was not raised in the same religion as my openly agnostic DH, and my family is much more religious than his.  We are both comfortable with having my parents expose our kids to their religion, but we will ultimately have to answer more explicit questions.  I guess we'll cross the bridge when we come to it.[/quote]

PP you're responding to here. Thank you for your beautiful story. I think you and your DH are doing a fantastic job and really, ultimately the realities of everyday stressors make it difficult to do more than this (for spiritual exploration). I'm sure your kids will do just fine, whether they have belief or don't.[/quote]

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