question about guilt/apprehension

[CerridwynM]

I am wondering if its just me or something all new pagans go thru...after being Christian so long, do you ever have like guilt feelings or a slight apprehension when considering in my case wiccan rituals/holidays/etc? I mean i know intellectually ....but somehow i still have some guilt or ?????
does this make any sense?

[Raevyn]

Yep I know how you feel. Don't worry about it - if you don't feel comfortable doing the Sabbats yet and it bugs you that much you don't have to do them. If you're not sure this is for you for example, or if you're just not sure you understand them or "feel" them yet.

[Tammy Sullivan]

My 2¢

I know just how you feel and it took me about 4 years to get past it. What helped me is looking at it like it IS the same God as you always knew and loved, this is a path to help you know it on a more personal level. This path does not seek to limit God into male or female, etc. (when I say God here I am just being general) But to open it up all the more to you in all of the facets.

[Sequoia]

PLHH - I really am not sure what you are talking about. . . ^^; If you'd like to let the rest of us in on this, it would be greatly appreciated. . . but perhaps in another thread.

Let's try to stay on-topic here. It's a good thread :)

**End Moderator Mode**

I never really felt "guilt" so to speak. . . but especially at the beginning, and once a very few whiles, I sometimes doubt the path I've chosen. Taking a unique path can be difficult sometimes. But. . . at least, in my experience. . . the trials are worth the tribulations. :) *hugs* you aren't alone in that.

[PLHH]

>>>PLHH - I really am not sure what you are talking about. . . ^^; If you'd like to let the rest of us in on this, it would be greatly appreciated. . . but perhaps in another thread.<<<

Sorry, I guess I've mistaken CerridwynM for a friend that I know from another website.
My mistake!
Stacy Wheeler

[Sequoia]

That's alright :) this is the newbies forum, after all :D

Next time you think you've run into a friend, and you'd like to give them an off-topic message, it would probably be a much better bet to try PMing them. Those are Private Messages, and only your friend will see it. Makes sense? :)

[CerridwynM]

I am clueless ..I must have missed PLLH's post.....

[qidrogreevat]

Heh, I have guilt about it, but mine comes from betraying science 8O, I guess, I've conquered it by adopting a scientific explanation for magic, and psi abilities.

[Sequoia]

Originally posted by CerridwynM
I am clueless ..I must have missed PLLH's post.....

She deleted it. . . ^^;