I joined the Universal Life Church on line and became the High Priestess of my own church. I call it the First Universal Life Church of Brutal Truth an Honesty. It is not incorporated so it is dubbed "a secret society." Anyone can join. Anyone can be ordained and have any title they want.

The church was first named "The Universal life Church of hot tubbing and movie watching." and we actually have a church building we were going to put hot tubs in, but my sister decided to live in the church instead, and there was no room for the hot tubs. Darn.

So I renamed the church. I will be honest with you, and I will try to use tact, but if you want brutal honesty, you will get it. You can ask for my advice in this thread if you want it, or you can discuss anything else that pertains to your purpose or belief.

Jeannie
High Priestess

kinda weird.ok when will god have me meet the one and what will his name be?

Names are insignificant in the spirit world. Picture the qualities you want in a mate and know in your heart that he will be drawn into your experience. Be ready to receive him. Like will attract like so be the kind of person you want him to be.

Jeannie

Jeanniebean

It is outright providencial fortitude that your sister is living in the building that would have housed "The Universal life Church of hot tubbing and movie watching."

You see I'm a longstanding member of "The Universal life Church of hot tubbing and movie watching", and I can tell you there would have been a bloody 'church war'!!!

The head of our church, our head/Hottub', His Holly Wood the First, doesn't take church copyright infringement lightly.

His 'Universal Picture', or overall 'take' on life, is a mighty godly manifest (MGM).

Anyhow, I wish you well with your 'Brutal Truth & Honesty' Church, and as a friendly reminder, do keep the 'Universal' in church, out of the 'pictures'!!!

And because you read like a good sport, here are 'two-for-one' passes (with pop-corn and drink), should you feel like a visit and worship at our church.

Do I look fat in this?

To voileazur:

Do you really have a Church by that name or are you pulling my chain? (Our original name would have been "The First Universal Life Church of hot tubbing and movie watching." But if your church came first, we would have changed the name to "The Second Universal Life Church of Hot tubbing and Movie watching." And of course we would have invited your head pastor to speak at our annual tubbing event. But the wind blue us in a different direction so I guess that will never happen.

To yzrabbit1:
No, you don't look fat in that. You look absolutely wonderful.

Jeannie

Yup.
Kat

I can tell already that you are an excellent spiritual leader- knowing instantly what kind of support your flock needs...

What about me? Do I look fat? Do I???

Just kidding. I think all religions should have a sense of humor. You seem off to a great start...

I just got an invitation to join a real live orchestra.

Me so happy!

You may now resume your regularly scheduled Church services.

Me so happy for you too!!!!!!!!!!!!




Play your heart out my friend. Spread your joy.

Just got a kick out of your spirit!

Didn't "... His Holly Wood the First" "... His 'Universal Picture' on life" "... a mighty godly manifest (MGM)..." and "... keep the 'Universal' in church, and out of the 'pictures'!!!" give it away?!?!?

:)

Can Anoasis and I be your 'backvocals'?!?!?

Glad for you 'abra'.

Right now, I'm just looking to bump a few notes around in the background myself.

This is so exciting!

Now I don’t know whether to pinch myself or go practice the violin.

Yeyyy, congrats.

Do both, that way you're covered....

Wow...I thought you were kidding Abra. You go fella. Make us all proud. Like we aren't already.
Kat

It's not a job, or anything like that. It's a community service orchestra actually. I'm doing it for free.

But hey, for me, this is like a dream come true. I just wanted to play music with other musicians.

Of course, they haven’t heard me play yet either.

Sooooooo,… we’ll have to wait and see how that goes.

The good news is that the conductor is also a violinist and she said she would give me free lessons!

Yippee! This is too good to be true. pinch, pinch, pinch!

Plus, if I’m playing in the violin section, then owl probably meet other violinists who might be willing to practice together on other nights too.

The orchestra itself only practices together one night a week, which is cool. I can practice my part all week long and then go play with the orchestra one night a week. This is the kind of thing I was looking for. An opportunity to play with other musicians, but not something that’s too demanding or overwhelming.

I guess I’ll have to buy a suit for the live performances huh? I’d probably stick out like a sore thumb in blue jeans, T-shirt, and a bandana. I almost forgot about the whole social aspect. I’ve been a hermit for so long this is like returning to earth after having been stranded on Mars for a while.

Oh, by they way, my apologies to JennieBeanie for the unintentional thread-jack. This just happened so I kind of just blurted it out live here.

There was a spiritual element to all of this by the way. I asked the universe for help in finding someone to play music with. I was thinking of a small group of local yocals playing in their backyard, but I didn’t know how to find anyone. I had even posted flyers on local bulletin boards to no avail.

Anyway, after I asked the universe for help, a guru came into my life almost instantly. She told me what to do to make my dream come true. So I did what she asked thinking that even that would take time. But hardly any time passed at all before I was contacted by the conductor of this orchestra inviting me to come play with them.

Boom. Just like that. Ask and you shall receive. The universe works in mysterious ways.

Abra;

Having worked along side orchestra's my whole life, I recommend a pair of black pants and a white shirt. Have a black one ready in case the circumstance calls for it. Congrats by the way, and enjoy!

This could get expensive. A new wardrobe, a hair cut, a tube of toothpaste. So much to do! Oh yeah, let's not forget a bar of soap too! Can't be too prepared.

Come to think of it, a new violin is probably in order too. I'm still playing my original student model!

What have I done?

Can I even afford to live a 'real' life?

That's the question!

Kinda weird with all this church and universe stuff
I used to belong to the Church of the Universe. It was a church for pot smokers

Was the Hymnal filled with Bob Marley tunes?