I realized today that the best way for me to feel connected to God and to worship Source, the Creator, the Great Spirit, is through listening to music and song. When younger I studied ballet and modern dance and I created dances to Amazing Grace, Ave Maria (Gounod and Schubert), You Light Up My Life and later on other music like You Raise Me Up, a song by Rabbi Carlebach- that filled me with the spirit and love of my Creator. The same music and more still touches me on a deep level and raises me up where I feel the love of life, of God, of being alive and I feel grateful for all of it. I grew up in a mixed religion family and was taught to love God through my mom’s poetry and dance, through my dad’s spiritual talks, and the bible stories I read. I did not go to any church or synagogue. I could go into any temple, church or shul and pray with all and feel we were all worshiping the one God, the same God. People tell me I’m not religious, that I’m spiritual and I guess that is so. I cannot choose any one religion or any one label, as I feel they all belong to God. All roads lead to God. People choose the religion that speaks to them or that they were born into. I was born into a home where God was worshiped through music and song, through poetry, through dance, through love of life and people. Most of all through our hearts connecting with the Spirit of all life.