The Sky Is Falling
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Every month I spend a few days volunteering at the Buddhist temple by my home. It is wonderfully healing and rejuvenating to spend time there. I am a budding Buddhist practitioner, as such I feel like a kid in a massive candy store as I explore the aisles I realize that I have so much to learn and discover about this spiritual path. I am fascinated with Alan Watts take on Zen Buddhism and His Holliness The Dalai Lamas examples of peace, joy, compassion, and altruism exemplified in Tibetan Buddhism. Especially since my deconstructing and de-converting from evangelicalism was terrifying and fraught with grief the ideas of Buddhism are especially poignant to me. Having spent three plus decades of my life immersed in the phobia, shame, and self-loathing the church burden me with escaping those spaces was profoundly difficult. It wasn’t the church holding me back but rather what they had brainwashed me with for so long.
Now that that chapter is closed in my life I am in a considerably healthier place mentally and emotionally.
I often wonder what it would have been like to be raised and to have explored my early adulthood free from the stifling confines of judgement, anger, fear, and shame that permeates much of those years of my life. The Wormwood Saga gives me the space to play with and explore those ideas and many of the other ones rattling around in my brain.
That’s enough about me for now though what is happening today with our lovely protagonist couple?
Andor and Lilli are in the midst of confronting the bizarre circumstances clouding what is supposed to be a time of joy, healing, and growing in love during the chapter in their lives as young newly weds. I wanted them to navigate these challenges free from dogma, paranoia, cognitive dissonance, and borderline insanity - which is how I found many xtians navigate crisis in their lives. Burry your head in the sand, spray the mantra of ‘thoughts and prayers’, conflate everything negative as an attack from demons or the fault of their neighbors who don’t adhere to the same political principles of ‘Guns, Babies, God’.
Chapter six is live and it’s a doozy. I had a lot of fun writing, rewriting, and agonizing over this part of the saga. I don’t want to spoil anything but you definitely don’t want to miss the chapter “The Sky Is Falling ☄️”
Hard link here: https://story.wormwoodsaga.com/aion/ii/the-sky-is-falling