Posted on 07/02/2011 8:31:02 AM PDT by markomalley
The “labyrinth walks” are just creepy and Satanic to me. I’m sure most discerning Christians would agree.
"Enter by the narrow gate;
for wide is the gate
and broad is the way that
leads to destruction,
and there are many who
go in by it.
Because narrow is the gate
and difficult is the way
which leads to life,
and there are few
who find it."
Actually, I disagree. There is one at a Catholic retreat house in the woods near here. I walked it at night, when it was barely lit by a single lamp on a pole. There were places where it was completely dark and I had to just keep going in what I believed to be the right direction to stay on the paths, which can feel disorienting, since they make hairpin turns.
And what came to my mind was, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path," from Psalm 119. It was a lesson.
North Carolina is known for it’s woodsy goofballs.
Perhaps it was an exercise, but it was anything but Christian.
Sad, really.
>>And what came to my mind was, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path,” from Psalm 119. It was a lesson.
For these people, the lesson would the interpreted as, “My feelings are a lamp unto my feet, and there are many paths.”
“And all the people said, ‘Unnngh!’.”
I don’t want to think what this could devolve into.
A gay acquaintance who happens to be relatively conservative has told me some real horror stories about the “gay scene”. He hand his partner went to a picnic for gay families and friends at the infamous Rainbow farm in southern Michigan some years ago.
He said it was the only picnic he’s ever seen that involved gay men having sex in the mud with children watching.
I doubt that highly.
The few conservatives at the festival privately complained that the panels were stacked with liberals and that issues dear to them, such as abortion, were neglected.
I would not presume to speak for Jesus, but does anybody picture the Lord taking a pregnant teen (or woman for that matter) by the hand, leading her to an abortion clinic?
And the festival is promoted by non-other than, Jim Wallis, BHO spiritual advisor.
Interesting that it took place in a “grove of trees”.
A good Christian can get something out of almost any given situation - that doesn’t mean all given situations are Godly or good or that one should put thmeselves continually in those places.
Blessings
Mel
There's a famous labyrinth on the floor of Chartres cathedral. It a kind of meditation. Think of it as a metaphor for the Christian's journey through life requiring perseverance through life's many turnings.
I cannot say anything about the flaky goings on in the N.C. woods.
Look at all those itching ears going down the wide road. It is shocking how many have fallen away from the atoning blood of Christ for other ways of their own imagination.
Read my tag line.
Luckily for these folks God is not as much into smoting as he once was.
New Age Beyond Thunderdome
Two gender unspecific humans enter!! One gender unspecific human leaves!!
Freegards
A whole 1500 attendees? That’s truly a groundswell.
My mother loved to go places where flaky people like these gathered, so I’ve seen plenty of what goes on at these kinds of events first hand. As a child, I didn’t realize what made me dislike them so much, and dislike the whole hippy movement as well (of which events like this are a descendent). Now, I know. It’s because of the phoniness, so thick it would take a chainsaw to get through it. These people are so busy pretending they (and all people) are something they aren’t that they totally lose sight of who they really are.
They can call themselves "Mainline Protestants," but the label is no more true than if you were to stand in a garage and call your self a 1952 Studebaker.
After all, Nancy Pelosi calls herself a Catholic.
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