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My Celtic studies or Celtic heart maybe led me to Orthodoxy and here I found that I am not a freak. I spent my life in different Western oriented sects and denominations looking at various doctrines and such thinking and saying all too often–“That can’t be right…..” How NOT to win friends and influence people….sigh…..then I finally stopped trying and after much meditation and prayer left it up to the Good God I knew in my heart loved me…..and when I stopped struggling, I found (was led to) Orthodoxy. Here I almost never have to repeat my that can’t be right mantra!! The priest at my church has heard me say ever so many times some variation of “That is how I thought it should be” or “I always believed that.” What I learned from my lifetime of reading of the early church fathers, the desert fathers and the scriptures and what I got from that reading and prayerfully meditating on that reading could not be equated with what I found in Western churches. They simply did not match. Now they do.
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