Five foot and change.

Six months between entries isn’t the most promising start, but I feel a little better knowing it hasn’t been for lack of material. Assuming a public identity as pagan has actually propelled me into a stage of spiritual growth beyond my imagining. And the way things look to be headed, it isn’t slowing down at all. I’m solitary, which means I have no guidebook, no well-worn path to follow. Still, I’ve found the most incredible support, people who are on their own solitary paths, and some whose experiences are compatible even when they aren’t the same in particulars. It’s difficult, building your practice from spare parts of things gleaned from many places, but it’s intensely rewarding.

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“Come along, Pond.”

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One of the things I first wanted to talk about with this blog is why I’m not a Christian anymore and why I became heathen.  In fact, I wanted to talk about it so much that I haven’t been able to write anything else until I did this post.  So I’m just going to dive right in.

For me there are two major elements to this story: breaking with the Church as an institution, and breaking with YHWH as a deity.  My disillusionment with the Church happened a long time ago, when I was a teenager, but the second one didn’t happen until the last few years.
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