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A soul’s reclaiming of sacredness beyond structure

There are ways I’ve knelt that no altar ever saw.
Ways I’ve wept without a name for God.
Ways I’ve listened so deeply to the silence that even my ancestors hushed to hear.

And not once—did I need a doctrine to get there.

Devotion without doctrine is not a rebellion. It’s a remembering.
Not an abandonment of faith, but a reclamation of the felt over the forced.

I do not need a rulebook to know when I’ve been touched by grace.
I do not need a creed to recognize the sacred in moss, in grief, in laughter, or in my own hands.

There was a time when I thought divinity required a steeple.
Now I know it hides in cracked ceramic mugs and breathes beside me when I water the plants.

There was a time when I thought prayer needed words.
Now I know silence sometimes speaks the holiest things.

There was a time I feared being “too much” for the sacred.
Now I know the sacred was always waiting for the too-much-ness to finally arrive.

This is not godlessness.
This is god everywhere.
Not stripped of meaning—
but freed from the cages built around it.

To walk with devotion but without doctrine is to let mystery be mystery.
To be faithful to presence instead of prescription.
To meet your soul each day like a trusted elder, not a scolded child.

I do not pretend to know the only way.
But I have found a way that does not burn me to prove I am worthy of light.

I have found devotion that doesn’t ask for sacrifice of self,
but instead invites the whole self to be seen—messy, mystical, and unrepentantly human.

This post is not to persuade.
It is simply to witness the quiet revolution of all of us
who are still in love with the sacred—
but no longer willing to shrink for it.

A question to sit with:
What does your devotion look like when no one else is watching?

A journal reflection:
Where has doctrine served you… and where has it silenced you?

A closing whisper:
You are allowed to tend your flame without proving your holiness.

Until next time,

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