Well, maybe. We have been with this church for about 4-5 years. Some in our membership have said they have felt close to God at times; of course, our pastor has his memories of this. Me, I haven't felt that closeness, but I feel comfort in being with our church membership, in church services or during choir rehearsal or performance, mainly because I get a sense that all outside problems are not as important as I think they are when I am outside the church circle. I have told our pastor that I don't spend a lot of time thinking whether I believe rigorously in the church dogma, even though I recite the Nicene Creed every Sunday. Our pastor didn't think it was that important.
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929.
