So this past weekend, i went to LA Congress for the first time. If you dont know, LA congress is a weekend of a whole bunch of Catholics coming together listening in on seminars, concerts, talks, mass, etc... in Anaheim. It a Religious Education Congress. The place was right next to Disneyland, literally right next to Disneyland! We fought the urge to just ditch and go. This was a great weekend, i went with Tom, and a few friends from LA. I went to some music seminars and the first one really sucked, but the second one was... pretty good. it was basically a praise session with David Haas, a composer of contemporary catholic music. His voice is so powerful and crisp, he really has an amazing gift. The other seminar i went to was about how life is too complicated and how we've been trained to live these meanless lives. This was really interesting.
This man who gave the seminar was a genius. Spoke 9 different languages fluently, had like 3 Phd's. There were a lot of things that he said that really impacted me.
- "Anamcara" - means soul friend. Finding peace in the moment
he said that peace can be found only by embracing this moment. When you resist life as it is, the only result is pain.
- Spirituality does not equate to what you believe
- "Are we too busy with nothing to be busy for the things we genuinely have interest for?"
This made me think a lot more of where my faith is rooted. Ill be rethinking how i think about faith.
(sigh... i wish my brain was a computer)
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