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| Annafea; My Introduction | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 19 2008, 04:27 PM (489 Views) | |
| Annafea | May 19 2008, 04:27 PM Post #1 |
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Hello, I am new to the site. I am a Christian Jedi. I have been a Christian all my life and have been on the Jedi path on and off for approximately 3 years. I was not aware of this site until recently and decided to join where there are other Jedi who practice Christianity openly. |
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| Annafea | May 19 2008, 04:35 PM Post #2 |
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Sorry, am doing this post in answer to the questions under the first youngling assignment as I had not gone there previous to my first intro post. 1. What do you think it means to follow the Jedi Way? I would say it means to emulate the behavior and code of the Jedi and to use the same as an example for how to approach life. 2. In your own words define the Force. What is it? How did it originate? How does it work? I would say the force is an energy that binds everything together. It binds the physical world to the spiritual world. It originated with God and works through the power of God. |
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| Ben Skywalker | May 19 2008, 05:09 PM Post #3 |
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Welcome! It is good to have you here! |
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| Kai Stormwalker | May 19 2008, 06:20 PM Post #4 |
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Welcome! Good answers for the first assignment. I hope you enjoy being here. |
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| Atreyu | May 19 2008, 08:38 PM Post #5 |
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Welcome Annafea, I'm happy to have you here. I agree with Master Kai, good answers to the first assignment. |
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| Silmerion Skywalker | May 20 2008, 03:07 AM Post #6 |
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Welcome at COJK Annafea! As Master Kai and Knight Atreyu, I think your answers are good. I hope you enjoy training with us Feel free to PM me if you need Master Silmerion |
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| Shawn | May 20 2008, 02:48 PM Post #7 |
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Hello, Welcome to the COJK! It's an awesome experience to have other's that can encourage you in a wide variety of area's so near as to the computer! If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Your Friend, |
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| Annafea | May 24 2008, 12:25 PM Post #8 |
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Ok, now that I have all my questions answered about how to get started with my training I guess I'd better get to business. Today I was able to hold the horse stance for 5 min. I had tried that the day before yesterday in the deep stance as in the picture I saw online. After having posted the picture in another thread here and asking if that were the right stance I found out it is the right stance but the person in the picture was doing a deeper bend than what a beginner should. So I did my own thing today more following the directions and the main thing I looked for is that my feet were grounded to where my body was well balanced and that my arms moved freely and I also tested for bouncibility. I think that is the main thing is that you hold a position that both grounds you and yet gives you flexibility of movement with the arms. I did some of my arm exercises while I was there too. Something crossed my mind today about that stance. It's kind of reminiscent about how our lives should be grounded with God but yet have flexibility to move as we need to in our world. I also was able to meditate for 20 minutes today. I begin to wonder if maybe I have been dealing with distractions for so long that maybe I actually meditate better with distraction. My family were making noise out in the room next to mine again, with the TV going, etc. And the neighbors were mowing the lawn. I had the TV on a meditation music station and just kept my focus on that, my gift of tongues, and the mantra that is in our training session for the meditation part. I think it actually helps me to practice this way with the intent on purposefully guiding my focus where I want it to be. But I will also work on trying to meditate in a quiet place and time if I can too because I want to be capable of meditating in any environment. An idea occured to me today and I'm just going to jot this down so if I forget I can hopefully remind myself. One of the other requirements we have for the youngling session is to memorize the books of the Bible. At one time I think I had them memorized. I somewhat do just from having had to find things in them. But I was thinking that what I can do is list them in bold on a paper and hang it up where I can see this while I am doing the horse stance. In a way, I'm not really thrilled with this memorization business. It is not the Catholic approach, which is what I'm used to, but I feel that it does not matter as it really amounts to an exercise to learn self discipline. So it doesn't matter whether they are asking me to memorize the books in the bible, stereo instructions, or the ingredients in cheerios, the benefit of it will be to have the discipline to reach a requirement that I did not set for myself. And there's nothing wroing with it. It may be a challenge, though, considering all the memorization I'm having to do in school. But I think if I work on it while doing the horse stance that will help with the time issues. |
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| Maria Skywalker | May 24 2008, 02:39 PM Post #9 |
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This is late but Welcome :D |
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| Silmerion Skywalker | May 25 2008, 03:47 AM Post #10 |
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Your answers are awesome and very thoughful, Annafea, you did a great job. You understood well the Horse Stance and its spiritual meaning. You are right about being able to meditate in any environment, I think it is very important, because the Jedi should always be mindful and calm in any situation, in tune with the Force and open to God's guidance. Being able to keep focused in a noisy surrounding is very good, usually it makes easier to meditate in a quiet place. I'm also a Catholic and I noticed that memorizing the Holy Scriptures made even richer the Catholic way of praying. Keep up the good job! Master Silmerion |
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| Annafea | May 26 2008, 08:00 PM Post #11 |
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Today I'm posting to start working on youngling assignment 4 which is to do something for others. That's actually kind of a hard one for me for personal reasons, but essentially the people in my current household really don't appreciate whether I do anything for them or not. So that naturally makes me less desirous of doing anything for them. It's easy to give to others when it gives you that warm squishy feeling, but around here even if I were to still get that warm squishy feeling it's like the saying on a plague my sister gave me once. It says something like "Doing a good job around here is like going to the bathroom in a dark suit. Gives you a warm feeling all over, but nobody notices." The other thing is that there's just really not a lot around here to do for others. They are all more efficient than I am. But I started small. Today I did one small thing. I got a serving spoon out for my Mom when she asked my Dad, who was busy, for it. But I didn't feel any warm and squishy feelings. Maybe sort of a sense of having accomplished something small, but then I just kind of felt like "big deal". So later when I was doing some meditation I kind of thought back in time to some of the other things I've done for others, not because I planned to, but because I felt lead of the Spirit in a sporadic way. One of them was several years ago when I lived in a bigger City I was at the mall one day and this little boy, who couldn't have been more than 2, was just standing there with his fingers in his mouth looking around. He kind of walked up to me with this lost look on his face, but he didn't say anything. I asked him if he needed help to find his Mommy. He nodded yes. I walked around with him in the general area we were in and asked him if he saw his Mommy. He shook his head no. I finally found a mall security person and told them the little boy was lost. They took it from there. But I've always felt good about that day because it just seemed like the little kid kind of had an instinct to pick me out of all the people in that mall area to trust. What told him that he could trust me? What if I hadn't been there that day? It just really made me feel profoundly the providence of God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Anyway, I think my prayer for myself would not be to think of nice things I can do, but rather to ask the Holy Spirit to renew in me the desire and the will to desire to do good for others again. Doing this exercise has kind of brought it to my attention that I have kind of become calloused about being nice to other people. I think the reason is a lot of the things I've been through in life and I have been ripped by a lot of people, but . . . . |
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| Silmerion Skywalker | May 27 2008, 04:20 AM Post #12 |
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Helping people is the main goal of the Jedi but it is also one of the most difficult thing to do. When I started my Jedi training I was more focused on myself, even because I had not reached a state of inner peace, training helped me to deal with the personal problems that were stopping me from fully opening myself to the others's needs, and I found the inner strength to be strong for them, I also learnt to recognize in myself qualities God gave me to serve the others and now I feel even more at peace with the world around me. It is good to start with small things, some person are difficult to help, keep praying for the Holy Spirit to guide you and be sure that all the good you do is bettering the world greatly, even if you think you do something small. Master Silmerion |
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| Atreyu | May 27 2008, 04:56 AM Post #13 |
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I agree with Master Silmerion. Anytime you do something good for others it's worth it, even if they don't notice. They might think about what you did later, and realize they want what you have. (aka a relationship with Jesus) Anyway, great answers, keep up the good work. |
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| Kai Stormwalker | May 27 2008, 06:47 AM Post #14 |
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This really is the essense of what service is about. You may not receive the response you want from the people you feel called to serve, but it is that peace that comes with knowing that you have fulfilled the call of God on your life regardless of the response. |
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| Annafea | May 31 2008, 05:36 PM Post #15 |
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Just kind of doing an update. I've been trying to just kind of help more around the house. Today I found another opportunity in that I was at a park in this park bathroom, which is kind of like a rest stop bathroom. There was a lady who needed to get in to use the rest room but she had these two dogs on leashes with her so she couldn't get in as there was no parking post for tying the dogs leashes on. I offered to hold them for her so she could go in. To my suprise and delight I found the warm squishy feeling of having done a good deed return. So that got me to thinking and comparing. I think a lot of it has to do with everything going on in my home life right now. There are a lot of issues. However, this lady I don't know at all, so there was no conflicting emotion involved in the decision or in how I felt about the practice. That brought to mind something in the Bible about how good deeds won't necessarily be rewarded in the here and now but in Heaven. I started wondering just exactly what is meant by "Heaven" in that case. A lot of times they find that the translation from Hebrew (etc) can actually mean something more specific or more than one thing. So I just kind of had this feeling that when we give it's just as people are saying above, that it's not necessarily a reciprocal thing. The Bible talks about doing things for the sake of doing good and not for the sake of what we think we will gain for it. So I'm thinking that has kind of been my road block. My own emotion about it. Yet at the same time I'm a bit cautious about going to far to the other side of the pendulum too. I think it's also possible to give too much. To give to people who will use the fact that you give as a weapon against you. There are people who will try to make you give them what you don't have. So I'm kind of balancing it all out in my own mind, but thinking that my main block is that I am trying to follow the guidance of my emotion in the area rather than my logic and understanding about what Jesus has taught us. But there are days like today when it happens and feels right and you can tell that everything just has a sense of being "in place". And that is where I think I need to be. |
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