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I hope the sermon and the church community is just what you are looking for, Janet. Spiritual community, when you find it, is very important.
I joined a Buddhist temple when Joel has a heart attack, years ago. A friend brought me because I really needed it. I loved it and stayed for about 8 years. I changed, and so did the leaders of my chapter, and I left, but I still live a lot of the ways of the Buddhist practice. It really levels the playing field. Like the church you went to Gayle, we had a very diverse group of members. We had a lot of people who were fighting so hard to crawl out of whatever hole they had fallen into, and that was a wonderful thing to be a part of.
Then, they became very rigid about their rules, that this was the best form of Buddhism, that we should get as many new people to join as we could, and, finally, I just felt that this was not for me. I have my own relationship with God. I don't need somebody else's rules for that.
There is a church across the road that a lot of people like. One of these days, I might try it. It's also very diverse, and people feel fulfilled by their connection there.
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