Brunette Lake Walk, Sunday

I didn’t make it to church today. Since the Anglican Church has been anti American and pro Islam I have wondered about being them. Prince Charles is the head of the church and appears pro Islam and anti Christian. I found it increasingly difficult to attend the anti American , pro communist China church and yet. I like the people.  I work all week and want church to be more about God and spirituality and the Bible and Jesus rather than social work.  I enjoyed the Biblical nature of Easter and realized I missed this.

I enjoyed the spirituality in the Orthodox Church we attended for the baptism of the god kids.  I am conservative and support Pierre Poilevre and don’t like Carney with his pro aetheist communist China and anti American position.  The anti ‘Trumpism’ that CBC promotes just takes people’s attention away from the horrible corruption in Canada with foreign affairs and climate change positions. I’m at variance with the clergy in the church. I think I’m at one with some of the congregation but I don’t like even thinking about this.

So this morning I slept in . I liked the church itself and have fond memories. There’s another church that meets there and I thought I’d check it out but didn’t want to face the politics of jumping ship or crossing the floor or whatever. They’re both dog friendly.  It’s work to get out of bed and go to church. I didn’t make it.

I went for a walk with Madigan around the park then I made the long walk to the Brunette River bird dock.  When I got back I went for a swim.

I feel God the creator. I feel Creation is alive in the way I feel the grass and earth alive when I walk on them as opposed to walking on cement,  I feel I’m this mind in the midst of this glorious creation. 

I ‘m reading the Nicene Creed history and enjoying the discussion of the nature of Jesus.  Spirt and matter.  I think of spirit and slow matter. It’s all God but there was a lot of confusion over the separation of man and God.  Jesus was the interface.  Advocate.  Humans were ‘creatures’ , created while Jesus was God and Man,  truly God and Truly Human, hypostatic union.  

If God and Human were distinct it was argued there would be no bridge or union. God perfect and human limited.  ‘Creator and created.  

The Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father, before all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten , not created, of one essence with the Father, through Whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate m and suffered and was buried;And He rose on the third day according to the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and dis seated on the right and of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead. His Kingodom shall have no end. 

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord m the Creator of Life who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified; who spoke through the prophets.

In one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

I look for the resurrections of the life of the age to come. 

This is taken from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

Latin Catholics have a slight varioation of their creed.

I learned the Apostle’s Creed but have always recited the Nicene Creed in church.

The Christian Triune God, is God the father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit.