Distilling the question of purpose & self worth

In my last post, I opened up a dialogue about where we draw our sense of worth from, especially with making the journey from an Evangelical perspective to one of the ancient faith of Orthodoxy.  I don’t have any answers, and in fact I think my list of questions continues to expand the more I think about this.  But after evaluating everything and processing things out loud in a dialogue with another tumblr member, I think I’m coming closer to the source of my angst and my doubts as a relatively new convert to Orthodoxy.

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So what now?

Although I was raise Lutheran, my roots in the evangelical way of life ran pretty deep — I was consumed by anything and everything that was of the church.  I was vivaciously active, “leading worship” wherever they would have me, going on retreats, leading bible studies, and consuming anything that I could get my hands on that would help reinforce the faint idea that God loved me and had a plan for me. 

Faint, yes. 

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