Religion/Spirituality

Merry Meet :)

In my opinion religion is about how much money you have to give to the church and about how fancy the church building is. and everyone that attends church is always checking to see if the other women wore that same dress twice in two Sundays or not. and they have a certain way that they preform their Sunday service and get mad everytime they have to change something. You also have to be there every single Sunday or the entire church talks about you.
I personally believe that to be close to God or Goddess, all you  have to do is walk outside and just sit silently and listen and meditate if you want to. you do not need fancy clothes that you just wear on Sundays or money in your pocket as 'offering' or even show up to one place every single Sunday. You just need to be alone out in nature, or anywhere by yourself as long as you can be silent and listen to nature around you whether its city or country. The God and Goddess do not care how you listen or worship them, as long as you do it. what your wearing or what's in your pockets does not matter.
Religion is a way for people to put their head in the sand and can feel like their doing something whereas Spirituality, you know what you are doing and your not sticking your head in the sand over it. your not running and hiding when something bad happens. your not trying to outdo the church down the road with the fancier building.
The preacher at my parent's church has been there for years but he felt that he had to move on to another church and since he's been there, at least thirteen people have been saved and he said there were more wanting to be saved in just the few weeks that he has been there. I grew up in that church and in the Christian religion but I feel as if I want to change my faith. I still worship God but I feel as if there is a Goddess as well and that they do have a Sun but not necessarily named Jesus. I very much believe in magic and coincidences and that things happen for a reason but I feel claustrophobic of sorts sitting in a church. it's too structured. I do not think that God wanted that at all.  
You can try to say that I am not of the Wiccan faith or anything but the thing about spirituality is that you do not have to be structured. be free in who and how you worship. Spirituality has no structure. Religion does.
Love & Light.

image by Anne Stokes

Practice what you preach!

Merry Meet! and Merry Christmas to Christians,
Everywhere today I've read or heard about how everyone should stop saying 'xmas' because your taking Christ out of Christmas, What most do not realize is that for them, Jesus is the Christ in Christmas and the reason for the season but there is no actual proof that his birthday is exactly on December 25th. or the fact that their holiday is so close to Yule because years ago early Christians was trying to stomp out the pagan spirituality. (I do not call it a religion because it isn't paganism/Wicca is a way of life!) 
Not to mention if Christianity were so tolerant as they preach all the time then why did they try to get rid of paganism? why would they try to convert everyone they come across if they did not push their religion as they claimed not to do? another religion that is very pushy are Jehovah's Witnesses. They would not stop coming by my house even after I told them I was not interested. My husband answered the door one day and told them that I'd died, that's the only way I got them to stay away.
I'm not saying that you cannot say 'merry Christmas' or anything but do not get so offended when someone that might not be Christian uses 'xmas' instead. if you practice what you preach then you wouldn't be so offended. also, pagans/Wiccans need to at least be nice and say merry Christmas when a Christian is around.
Practice Tolerance!
Blessed Yuletide/Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

Socks into Fingerless Gloves? is it possible?

 

Here is an interesting concept for everyone to try. You take a sock that might have a hole in it and you take and measure and cut to make arm warmers out of them.  unless you have the money to just buy new socks or buy arm warmers then I would suggest using old hole-y socks that way you do not have to throw them away or waste a brand new pair.

plus, you could make some really cute/cool arm warmers that would be unique. especially if you wear bright socks with designs on them!

If you do make a pair, send me a picture! I want to see what you come up with!!

Happy Holidays/Merry Yule/Merry Christmas!!

Tomorrow is Yule.

I want to wish everyone a blessed yule tomorrow. I hope that you and your families are blessed and may this solstice and turning of the wheel bring you love, peace, and good fortune in the coming year!

Let us welcome the returning sun with hope, joy. may you never thirst!! May your home be blessed with every intention that you wish to have. let us rejoice in the birth of the newborn sun and let his light shine on us.

Let us mourn the passing of the holly king and may he rest in peace so that his sun can take his place and may the Mother raise him in good spirits. Blessed Be!

Love & Light to your home from mine!
and have a blessed yule!!

Knitted HeadBand, what do you think?

Merry Meet!
ignore the hot mess in the picture but I do not normally do selfie pictures but I wanted to share the headband that I made last night. my original intentions were to make a cowl (or infinity scarf) but it wanted itself to be a headband I guess. so here it is! its made in the ribbed stitch (knitting not crochet) and I used camo colored yarn. and it is the first project that I made with my circular needles. I'm still learning as far as knitting goes but I think that it turned out good.
Bright Yule Blessings!

Check it out!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVeQgnm9pic&feature=share&list=PL515C921249B284F1&index=1