science, religion and my take and yours

sorry this sounds like a sweeping treatise. I just discovered while working behind the

iconostasis today, conducting service, that while balancing my own discipline

with things I need to do and be careful of and get done, that this religion is a way of helping and understanding life,

while getting on with it.

It's a way to make sense of it - and give answers for things, when they go awry. To protect

from the forces that can make it go awry as well. Science,

specifically, psychology is a way to understand and manage life too and helps me get on with it - and it's a whole

bunch of things I like in truth ...and yet then there's my take on things ultimately at the end of the day.

A mix of thoughts, ideas and feelings. My own leanings for spirituality

and science and faith and humanity and community are there too. I realize now those things come into a kind

of dialogue when I meet with others and become close to them. It's important to not blindly go

submissive to another's standard that keeps you from healthy well exercised and satisfied existence.

That's something I am waking up to today regarding part of my life here at the monastery. I know I have to manage

it and I can and will. It's just a matter of waking up to the dynamics and keep true.