well, I had to wake up early today for a delivery, and I turned on the TV at 6AM....and there on the screen...LO! I see what I have been missing in my disdain for spitituality! What, you ask breathlessly?

Read on......

None other than Kenneth Copeland and a cohort, explaining to me that God wants me to be wealthy! All I have to do is...ummmm...believe or something...and think positively about receiving the monetary blessings I am entitled to.....why would I doubt? I went to his website and saw it happened for Kenneth! ...and I don't even need an airplane! New tires for the van would be good, though....

    Now, I suppose someone is gonna tell me I shouldn't be getting my involved in THAT particular brand of spirituality, and that I shouldn't judge 'serious' spirituality by the worst examples.

Little Hawk says "We test spiritual concepts out, Bill, by actually
trying them..." and then Amos says some more about "Te test of good spiritual principles is whether they improve life in their application.."....and isn't that the point I've been trying to make? If life is happy, reasonable, productive and sane without a subjective immersion in concepts that are like cotton candy when you try to examine their substance, then it just removes a BIG layer of unnecessary complexity for me. The universe is interesting enough and has a lot to be discovered without positing "eternal levels of primal energy and realms of recurring lives with auras and subsuming of my conciousness into a vortex of universal beingness separate from my body"....(did I get that right?...I can't seem to wrap my head around the details..)

And if spirituality IS there for the taking (for those who "open themselves to it"), how do I know that Kenneth Copeland's version isn't right? Many, many millions sure agree with him, at least on the basic tenets?

...and I sure could use those tires....