About Hopeful Spirit

Good things are on the hori­zon for this hope­ful spirit!  The truth has set me free!

Here at On the Hori­zon the focus is on wor­ship­ing and giv­ing thanks in all things!

This site doc­u­ments my jour­ney toward a deeper under­stand­ing of the Gospels and enrich­ment of my faith out­side the con­fines of the insti­tu­tional, patri­ar­chal church. It facil­i­tates my spir­i­tual growth by pro­vid­ing me with a forum in which to write about my thoughts, feel­ings and observations.

I am a pro­fes­sional woman with an advanced degree resid­ing in California.

I can no longer say “God” or use male pro­nouns to describe what I now refer to as the “Divine Cre­ator” or, sim­ply, the “Divine” or “Spirit.” Why? Because I believe the Divine is gender-less and loves all of human­ity uncon­di­tion­ally, end­lessly. I believe that Jesus Christ was the human incar­na­tion of the Divine and he sac­ri­ficed him­self in order to demon­strate the Divine’s bound­less love for all of us. The Spirit reaches out to and dwells in all of our hearts.

I believe in angels because I have had encoun­ters with a few of them. And I know that the Dark Force referred to by most believ­ers as the “Devil” exists — I have stared it down, bat­tled it and won on quite a few occasions.

The Bible is the author­i­ta­tive source of guid­ance in my life, but do not embrace a lit­eral inter­pre­ta­tion. Rather, I believe it must be read within its his­tor­i­cal context.

I believe in rad­i­cal inclu­sive­ness, mean­ing that all per­sons should be wel­comed into the fel­low­ship of spir­i­tual beings, irre­spec­tive of their gender/sex, race/color, socioe­co­nomic sta­tus, sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion, etc. Jesus was not in the “in” crowd; he did not hang with the “pop­u­lar” folks. He embraced and empow­ered those who were mar­gin­al­ized and out­cast by soci­ety, and we should fol­low his exam­ples in our deal­ings with each other.

This site is a forum for my read­ers to share their expe­ri­ences, obser­va­tions and ideas, sim­i­lar or dif­fer­ent from mine.

Rad­i­cal inclu­sive­ness is the rule here as it is in my off-line life, so all per­sons are wel­come here, and all view­points and opin­ions will be respected and honored.


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