How does your faith enhance your life?

Reading: Every Person's Guide to Judaism (Einstein and Kukoff)

"For many Jews-by-Choice, their relationship with a Jew was the original impetus to explore Judaism....While an impending marriage with its accompanying thoughts of home building and child rearing may be the reason that some people begin to explore Judaism, it is important to realize that conversion is not a favor that one person does for another, regardless of the depth of love between them. Ultimately the choice of Judaism must be one that individuals make because it is right for them and because they believe that Judaism will be life-enhancing for them personally."

I'm just really digging the term "life-enhancing" as a criteria for choosing a faith. At first, enhancing seemed a bit shallow a word. Then I got the mental image of the folks cleaning the Sistine Chapel with qtips, it suddenly just coming into majestic new color...

(I am doing a bunch of reading toward the credentialing process for Unitarain Universalist religious educators - if

you'd like to see what that list looks like, see http://www.uua.org/documents/recc/reading_list_annotated.pdf )

UUism suffusing life?

Reading: Every Person's Guide to Judaism (Einstein and Kukoff)

"...this book is not simply about customs and ceremonies. Its focus is the deep connection between Jewish theology and Jewish living. Judaism is not merely a religion. It is a system that suffuses the life of its adherents."

Oh, how I would love to be able to insert "Unitarian Universalist/Unitarian Universalism" into those sentences. Authentically. Ours is a religion and we have theology. And we have oodles and oodles of wonderfully spiritual people doing wonderful work in the world... who do not want to own the words or do not recognize all that they do as an embodiment of Unitarian Universalism.

There is huge cultural work to be done. Sacred spaces to be created, baggage to be faced, and sweet revelations celebrated.

I'm ready to work and ready to celebrate. How 'bout you?

(I am doing a bunch of reading towards the credentialing process for Unitarian Universalist religious educators - if you'd like to know what that list looks like, check out http://www.uua.org/documents/recc/reading_list_annotated.pdf )