[stylist] believing the unbelievable

[William L Houts]

HI Jackie,

You are very kind, as always.  And I would like very much to hear more 
about your African adventures.  I'm sure I have much to learn from you, 
especially regarding these experiences.  Which nation did you visit?  
Was it as part of the Peace Corps or Mercycorps or one of those agencies?



--Bill




On 8/2/2015 3:32 PM, Jackie Williams via stylist wrote:
> Bill,
> I really like this response. So honest and refreshing.
> It makes me think of my days in Africa when my pragmatic houseboy was a
> professed Christian, but always went to the medicine man as well. It was
> like double indemnity. He made out pretty well working both sides of the
> fence. He was as smart as a crow.  (I do not visualize a whip as being
> smart.)
>
>
> Jackie Lee
>
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz	
>
>
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> Houts via stylist
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] believing the unbelievable
>
>
> HI Debby,
>
> Although I'm mostly an ex-Catholic, I keep mysaints around for backup.
> Especially, I sometimes pray to Saint Thomas More, the lawyer saint, to
> get me out of scrapes and to intervene on my behalf when I'm too
> embarrassed to go to Mother Mary for stuff.  I'm fairly well convinced
> that the saints have always been provided as a kind of backup network
> when the pagan gods were kicked to the curb.  Even when I was
> practicing, though, I still looked upon springtime as the season of the
> Goddess, and now, having quit the Church, I still go into my old church,
> Saint James Cathedral in Seattle, and visit with the saints and take in
> a breath or two of incense. But nowadays I think of God as the sapient
> ocean through whom we swim, so I'm a kind of religious juggling act,
> practicing five or six relgiosities dpending upon my mood, what time I
> got out of bed that morning, and other such variables. Mostly, though, I
> just maintain an attitude of gratitude for my friends and family, for
> the fact that that, on these hot summer days I can easily grab a bottle
> of icy cold water from our ice box when there are many others in our
> world who have to hike 20 miles in 115 degree heat to fill a 20 pound
> bucket of lukewarm water for their family, and for the fact that I can
> rise late on Sunday morning to write this pleasant email to my distant
> friend Debby and all of our smart gifted friends.  As I recently said in
> a recent FB post, we are emperors.
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
>
>
> On 8/2/2015 9:43 AM, Debby Phillips via stylist wrote:
>> Well, okay, I am probably going to be the naysayer here.  I don't
>> disbblieve that things can happen.  I'm sure there are spirits.  But
>> there is only one Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is quite of the
>> Trinity.  Part of God.  There are other spirits, there is Satan,
>> (father of lies).  There are powerful forces, spirits, (angels).  As a
>> charismatic Catholic, I have seen and experienced some interesting
>> things.  But I do not believe that all these spirits are good.  There
>> is a definite Evil that lurks in the world.  I have experienced that
>> evil.  I have also experienced God's angels overpowering that evil.
>> As a Catholic, I also believe in the Communion of saints-that is,
>> asking for prayer from the saints.  I also know that you can find
>> writings, books, etc.  that will tell you that the Catholic Church is
>> evil because of this or that.  I wouldn't have said anything, but I
>> feel that Christianity has been maligned.  We didn't make up stuff,
>> twist things around to suit ourselves, or anything of the sort.  You
>> have the right to believe that, but to state it as truth is
>> questionable.  Lucifer "the angel of light" really is the angel of
>> darkness-he only wants people to think that they are walking in the
>> light.     Debby
>>
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