I've been feeling a bit adrift lately. Maybe it's because all the reading I've been doing has been a bit gloom-and-doom: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond.
However, it's also because I kept telling myself I'd have/make more time for spiritual things once I graduated from college. But what have I been doing? First, I obsessed over my diet for a while (procrastinating, though also an important issue) got busy in a frenzy of sewing to prepare for Estrella War (procrastinating). Then, I got fixated on my dearth of housekeeping skills. With my new job, my new organizational leaf so hopefully turned over has been decidedly overturned.
With the weather warming up, I get back to my wardrobe. I bought myself a couple of blouses and a pair of pants that actually fit yesterday, all suitable for summer wear. I've been altering my existing things to make them more suitable--making some of my cami's extra long and cutting others into bras.
But I get the feeling my clothing issues (and probably the food and household organization thing, too) are just symptoms of my need to focus on what's really going on: my sense of dissatisfaction with my religious and spiritual life. And ultimately, I think I need to focus on the spiritual side of that, because this is about turning inward.
The question is, how to go about it? I usually attack things in this arena on 2 fronts: study in my own faith, and study someone else's. With this modest dress kick, the "someone else's" currently on my radar is Islam. I've been reading some thoughtful and inspiring blogs by Muslimahs lately. I'm probably going to go back and re-read the Qu'ran as soon as I'm done reading Silent Spring (which I'm pretty sure is overdue at the library).
For the "my own" portion of this, I'm reading the sagas. Every night before bed, no matter how tired I am, I'm working on reading the sagas. It's about making time for it. No more PROCRASTINATING!
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Ravin, you definitely should get ahold of or at least read online the Mohamed Asad version of the Quran. It's the most concise version in the english language that translates the meaning of the arabic, not just a literal translation. You also should beware that there are translations out there that are incorrect - such as the Hilali/Khan, which adds stuff from basically people's opinions, they are NOT revealations from God. They're mainly from Saudi Arabia, and they're trying to spread their oppressive and hateful version of Islam (wahabbism). Saudis have tons of money and also the loudest mouths in the mosques...muslims don't like to fight especially not in the mosque, so they are usually just allowed to kind of "take over" with their extremist positions because most muslims are simply too polite to contest them, but they need to be contested. So sorry to say something negative but just wanted to give you a warning about the quran translations, I think this is the version they're sending from Saudi for free if you write the embassy and say you are interested in ISlam. You can view the Asad quran here...
http://eteraz.org/tag/quranproject
You can buy it here..
http://www.thresholdbooks.com/
Peace!
-Nur.
I just realized you can get the Asad quran for like $8 (just to cover shipping and handling) here;
https://www.cair.com/explorethequran/request.asp
CAIR is giving them to non-muslims like yourself who are exploring our Faith.
Peace! (salaam!)
-Nur
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