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Week 18:The Mindful Empath Almanac I will start recording these voiceovers so they hit the podcast feed, I hope you enjoy them!! If you become a paid subscriber you will begin to receive longer audio meditations (8 per year). The next one is coming up soon!!mindfulempath.substack.com/subscribeQuote:“I dwell in possibility.” ~ Emily DickinsonReflection:I have wrestled with, maybe not so much recently but often enough over the years, the Christian upbringing of my childhood and my more current Buddhist/Agnostic sensibilities.Even as a former pastor/minister within the Baptist tradition I had a challenging time with the side effects of the faith. Shame being the primary issue. For one’s faith to be central, you had to carry a deep shame of the human experience. That never sat well with me. Honestly, this post is not about that…I may save that for a different week!One of the other issues I had with how Christian faith seemed to cling to ideas and precepts that they felt were immutable and immovable. That is most