Holy moly, going to church can be very totally different if Jennifer Garner turned up like this!
The star has revealed she takes her youngsters to church and would have cherished to have been a minister.
The Elektra actor, 51, who has Violet, 17, Seraphina, 14, and Samuel, 11, from her marriage to ex-husband Ben Affleck, added her mum nonetheless thinks she would possibly swap careers and take up holy work.
She advised the most recent concern of Allure journal: “I would have really liked being a minister. My mom thinks I still will be. I grew up in such a lovely church in the United Methodist Church, and the minister was like the den parent.”
Garner additionally spoke about figuring out with the artistic facet of theology: “What I like about the study of religion, it reminds me of the study of theatre — it’s really a liberal arts education.
“You have to understand history, geography, literature. It’s art, it’s everything. I don’t know anything about Hinduism, Islam, so many other religions, and I wish I did. That feels like a sign of respect.”
She continued about how she thinks the church brings collectively communities: “I think the more you engage, the more you learn about different ways that people believe and worship, the more you can sit next to anyone and be a neighbour.
“There’s such value in that to me. I don’t know that I will ever be someone who is writing a sermon Sunday morning, but I like the idea of it. I like the idea of going back to divinity school.”
Garner’s eldest daughter teaches Sunday faculty and the actor stated she nonetheless holds on to the phrases from one church service she witnessed as a toddler.
“As a kid, my family and I, we always referenced this one beautiful sermon, where our minister talked about taking something hard that had happened and imagining yourself going down to the banks of the river and fashioning a beautiful box out of what you find there and placing this hurt carefully in the box and watching it float down the river. The power of letting go. Don’t carry it. Just let it go,” she stated.
“So many times, my sisters and I have said: ‘You need to put that in the river.’ I’m not coming from a place of, ‘I have this unshakeable faith that I have to share.’ It’s coming from a human place — a place of respect and curiosity.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
