I don't think I fit Pagan or Wiccan. I'm what I jokingly called a Heidiist when I was younger. I take a little here and a little there and call it mine. I actually had a long conversation about religion with my VERY devout espicopalian(sp?)grandmother a few days ago. She point blank asked what my beliefs were, I told her fully expecting an explosion. She really surprised me. What the conversation boiled down to was that I do my best not to hurt anyone and that's what counts. I'm still tearing up over it.
I think that Grandma has really thought about her beliefs(that pretty much leaned toward fire and brimstone) since my mom(her daughter) passed. Mom was an incredibly loving, caring woman. She couldn't bear to see an animal in pain, and helped whenever, however she could. She would do almost anything to help someone given they were making some attempt to help themselves, and sometimes even if they weren't. Grandma refuses point blank to believe that she is in Hell despite the fact Mom wasn't religious at all. (Mom was a leukemia patient who endured extensive chemo, a bone marrow transplant, and had two strokes before finally letting go.)
Ugh, now I'm really crying. Point I'm trying to make is that it is truly what we do, not what we think that dictates what comes next for us.
I think that Grandma has really thought about her beliefs(that pretty much leaned toward fire and brimstone) since my mom(her daughter) passed. Mom was an incredibly loving, caring woman. She couldn't bear to see an animal in pain, and helped whenever, however she could. She would do almost anything to help someone given they were making some attempt to help themselves, and sometimes even if they weren't. Grandma refuses point blank to believe that she is in Hell despite the fact Mom wasn't religious at all. (Mom was a leukemia patient who endured extensive chemo, a bone marrow transplant, and had two strokes before finally letting go.)
Ugh, now I'm really crying. Point I'm trying to make is that it is truly what we do, not what we think that dictates what comes next for us.