“Reinventing one’s consciousness to a new concept of God… takes more than a little effort.”

“Happily  New Thought has come around to look at the nature of God more in terms of love and law, rather than in terms of a super being, somewhere out there who is judgmental, vengeful and jealous, and who insists on one unyielding way to salvation.”

George Sison words are in sharp contrast to what I was taught. He continues: “From school, we remember a white-bearded, aged figure with a thunderous voice expressing anger any moment one commits a sin or violates any of his commandments.”

Throughout my schooling and even through the 90s (!!!!) my life was ruled by the exacting cosmology of the nuns who taught me. Several retreat  masters ,mostly Jesuits, were just as fear trigger happy.

It took a young psychiatrist who eventually married my first cousin to open my mind. So ironical that eventually in the 2000s he left our church. I would like to believe he belongs to a more compassionate church now.