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To: fwdude
The “labyrinth walks” are just creepy and Satanic to me. I’m sure most discerning Christians would agree.

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.

4 posted on 07/02/2011 8:43:34 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (To ACLU & its plaintiffs: Stop dragging the public into your personal struggle w/ God. -Mark Baisley)
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To: Albion Wilde

Perhaps it was an exercise, but it was anything but Christian.


6 posted on 07/02/2011 8:46:01 AM PDT by fwdude (Prosser wins, Goonions lose.)
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To: Albion Wilde

>>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.”


8 posted on 07/02/2011 8:53:25 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (We don't need to win elections. We need to win a revolution.)
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To: Albion Wilde

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


14 posted on 07/02/2011 9:28:00 AM PDT by melsec
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To: Albion Wilde; fwdude

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.

15 posted on 07/02/2011 9:28:13 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Albion Wilde

Isaiah 5:20 “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter”.


25 posted on 07/02/2011 1:44:06 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( The Palin Party: The Party of Patriots.)
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