GraceSA
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My Tagline:
Never trust a spiritual leader who can't dance-Mr. Miyagi
My Interests:
God, Interfaith issues, History, Music, Books, Education, Travel, Politics, Cancer, Family, Parenting, Quilting, History- particularly Republican Era Rome, British (Henry VIII, Elizabeth I etc.), more recently the French Revolution...ok, I'm a nerd....
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
Books: Jane Austen, James Michener, Antonia Fraser, Colleen McCullough TV:John Stewart-the Daily Show, Boston Legal, Star Trek-especially Deep Space
Nine. Music- Van Morrison, Santana, Roxy Music, Kenny Loggins with and without Messina, B-52's, Pretenders, Amr Diab
Who Inspires Me:
For a variety of reasons: My husband and children, Nelson Mandela, Steve Irwin, Khalad Abou Alfadl, Karen Armstrong, Malcolm X, Yitzhak Rabin, Jimmy Carter, good teachers everywhere!
My favorite spiritual activities:
I find most things can be spiritual, when I'm in the right frame of mind. Beautiful nature tends to put me there.
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Grateful
What's your spiritual type?:
Undefinable - These labels (and most labels) don't work for me.
About Me
I am an American born and raised in Southern California, now living in Saudi Arabia. Something I appreciate most in a person of any faith- or no faith, is tolerance. We all have to live here together, and we can not chose for others how or what they should believe.
I wish some Theists would stop acting as though they have cornered the market on a relationship with the Divine- even if you are "right" all you have is the better road map- maybe someone else has gone further with their defective one. Ultimately only God can judge- not you- even your perfect books are filtered through imperfect human understanding.
I wish some Atheists would stop acting as though they've cornered the market on logic and reason. Not only have they not-some of them are abysmal at it. They may "believe" that ultimately logic and reason will answer all questions of the unseen and unknown, and maybe they will, but until then no need to sneer at people who are theistic.
My Basics
Gender: Female
Occupation: Grad Student
Relationship Status: Married
Faiths:
Muslim
Faith Description: Unconventional Muslim
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