2026: Sunday March 1

Sometimes I think it would be nice to belong to a church (you know, for the community), but I'm not sure how one does that if one doesn't believe in God. My best bet might be the Unitarians, although they're so accepting and kind hearted, it could get on my nerves after a while. That's the trouble with community, you have to deal with people. 

I'm thinking about Unitarians because I went to a funeral at the local UU church yesterday for someone I knew reasonably well years ago. Well enough to give her sons and her husband hugs and to offer to help clean out the house. Not well enough that they're likely to take me up on the offer. Anyway, the minister said meaningful things about grief only existing because love exists; the husband cried and we all cried with him, then he said sweet things about Spring coming and how we had another year ahead to do good together; then we sang "This Little Light of Mine," and you know I don't sing in public, but I stood up straight and enthusiastically mouthed the words and felt energized afterwards. 

Then I wonder, if it wasn't for all the bullshit, would Catholicism be a possibility? There's lots of singing. And ritual and beauty and forgiveness. Mary, she's merciful. There are some pretty radical Catholics out there, and a tradition of lay community that sometimes tries to circumvent the very problematic hierarchy and history. But again, the whole God thing. And Jesus as divine. Etcetera. So I'll just bumble along as I am for a while longer, I guess. 

I did a quick search for "church" in my photos. Some of them are more church-y than others. 

I'm curious what religion would go with this mural that the search identified as having church-like elements.