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I’m not usually superstitious/spiritual, but I wanted to see what you all think.

I found a small glass figure of a man meditating by a bus stop on my way home. No one was around and it looked like it had been left there. I felt bad to leave it because I didn’t want it to get broken, so I took it home. Well, I was trying to unlock my door and it slipped out of my hand and broke. It’s in mostly one piece, but the legs shattered into tiny pieces.

The next day, my 4 year relationship broke things off out of the blue. A week later, my best friend of 10 years withdrew and said he didn’t think we should be friends anymore. My grandpa went to the hospital days after that.

I still have the figure but I’m not sure what to do with it now. Should I return it in its broken condition? Repair the legs with clay and keep it? Just throw it out completely? Gift it to a friend? I can’t help but feel like something out there went haywire after I broke it.

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I have a very complicated relationship with religion. As a disclaimer, I am NOT christian in the typical sense of the word. I do not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ or any other person/being. I do believe in a lot of the teachings of the Bible and that religion has powerful effects on people’s lives (I just don’t believe those effects are because of magical forces beyond our understanding). I am this way because of years of speaking with people of many faith backgrounds and reevaluating my own beliefs and my beliefs are very stable at this point in time. I don’t hate christianity or christians as a whole by any means, I see the good and the bad in it I just don’t personally believe it’s possible to know whether christianity is true or not because it’s inherently based on personal faith (trusting something is true without material evidence).

With that disclaimer out of the way, I want to ask christians: what part of christianity helps you the most personally? Do you feel like when you’re experiencing extreme difficulty, the meditative act of prayer helps? Being in a community setting regularly? Believing that a divine being is watching and taking care of you? Taking time to read and analyze a philosophical text? If you had to think about your religious journey through a non-believer standpoint, which part of your religion has helped you the most in the material sense? Like I said, I believe that religion can be a powerful force for good and often evokes positive changes in people’s lives. I do not attend religious services or have many close friends who identify strongly as christians. I want to hear what you all think. Please be open minded and considerate, I am going through a very difficult time right now.