Comments on: An Inherited Faith

By: gina b

gina b — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:25:56 +0000

I applaud you for your courage to allow your son to find his own faith. My faith journey was only deepened by rejecting the faith thrust upon me by my family at the age of 27. It took a long time and many paths to get to the point I am now, so close with my God. Same is true for all – to find God it must be on your own terms.

Loving your blog!

By: jenni

jenni — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:21:29 +0000

I have some seekers, and I have some accepters. The seekers take my heart and wring it out regularly with painful twisting. It’s much harder than I thought it would be to witness the wrestling.

By: Terri

Terri — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:28:01 +0000

I admire how you are teaching your son to be a critical thinker. I too always want my boys to critcal think about things and not to follow blindly. Through this they shall find their inner faith and what that is to them. At least I hope!

By: bee

bee — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:02:16 +0000

I’m guessing that may be one of the toughest parts of being a parent. My parents aren’t so good with it. Sometimes I feel like they’d rather me end up losing my faith altogether, rather than leave the church I grew up in.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:04:56 +0000

Very well-written, AM. And along with your faith, you’ll pass along wisdom. And maybe a quality piece of cookware wouldn’t hurt.

By: Evonne

Evonne — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:36:27 +0000

I’m wrestling with God – whoever “he” is – myself right now. It was helpful to read this post.

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:07:29 +0000

My faith is not exactly that of my parents. . .close. . .but not exact. . .and my children CONSTANTLY amaze me when through asking me a question, they teach me more than I can teach them.

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:13:39 +0000

This is a beautiful post. I know you call yourself an antique, but it’s posts like these that make me wonder if we shouldn’t all have our families in our 40s. I know this is your story, and only yours, but it still begs the question in my head.

By: mama speak

mama speak — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:38:50 +0000

AM–You are so eloquent at expressing yourself. I wish I had half the writing skills you do.
I feel strongly what you said, it’s a lot of why I feel strongly about where we live and raising our children here. I think it’s not only important for our children to have the opportunity to find faith in their own way, but to have exposure to many other faiths so that they can understand what they believe in context to other’s beliefs. (Did that make any sense at all?) Living in the SF Bay Area has so much diversity questions about what others do and why come up almost daily. I love that about here. In many respects we are learning and growing together.
Because of exactly what Karen said about feeling lost, we go to church regularly now and DD1 is enrolled in “Sunday School”. I want her to find her own relationship with faith, but as a child I don’t want her to feel lost. It’s important to kids to have some good solid answers to things in their life. Until they become teenagers, when they start questioning everything, they need a basis in which to feel comfortable.

Bridgette—I was raise Catholic (lite) and I know the church wouldn’t want me representing them on most issues, nor would I begin to think I could, since I don’t agree with many of the things they teach. However, going to Catholic mass is what going to church is to me. I like the formality of it I guess. Anyway, my point is that your mother sounds like she might be a bit fanatical about the practice of her faith; not all of us are like that. Remember there are fanatics in every religion. I think the most important thing to remember is that it’s really about faith & spirituality. Religion is the way in which we practice those things, and I think too many people consider them to be one in the same.

Ok, I’m hijacking you comments AM, sorry.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:34:31 +0000

I love this post.
It’s exactly what my heart feels to faith & my own kids too.