Jerry Brown

"When people heard he’d studied to be a priest and then gave it up, when people heard he was interested in meditation and then Buddhism, it felt like he was hopscotching around spiritual disciplines. In fact there is a strong through line in all of that, which is that these are disciplines that ask questions about a man’s relationship to nature, man’s relationship to God, the right way of proceeding, humanity’s place on the Earth." 

From an interview of Jim Newton, author of “Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown,”

I think a lot about how I would describe my spiritual journey and my faith currently. While I am not comparing myself to Jerry Brown and his spiritual disciplines, I liked the rejection of hopscotching in this description. I feel a consistency through the life of the young confirmand who wondered about the people who lived before Jesus becoming the older adult who has become interested in Buddhist practices.