Tag: Formation
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Hidden Spirituality
Do we know if we are spiritual? Yes, in the sense that being spiritual is our natural and created vocation. We are made for relationships with one another, with all creation, with God in and through everything else, and even ourselves. We have the capacity and are oriented for a spiritual walk in life, and…
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Describing Spirituality
In the scriptures, spiritual maturity is compared to seeing rather than blindness (John 9:39). It is described as being awake instead of asleep (Ephesians 5:14), in the light as opposed to in darkness (Ephesians 5:8-9), and alive rather than dead (Romans 8:10). Among the many metaphors, it is also to be well-watered instead of parched…
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Physical Spirituality
I suggested last week that much of our spiritual journey depends on awareness, specifically the awareness of the intertwined essence of our physical-spiritual nature. Our embodiment in human form and participation in a material world is not a problem to be solved by escaping into the spiritual, but is rather the location for our actual…
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Spiritual Awareness
The nature of our spiritual existence is that the unseen has more significance for our lives than what can be seen, though the physical world is the context in which we experience that which transcends and is beyond it. We encounter and are encountered by what exceeds what the natural world offers, but what is…
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Toward Spirituality
When we do not know how to sense the movement of God’s Spirit, we end up relying on what is visible, on our own human movements, desires, and senses. If we cannot perceive the invisible, we inevitably create something we can see, a tangible version of what we imagine. The essential truth about our spiritual…
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Mind Fast
When you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. Matthew 6:16 Many have noted that Jesus says “when you fast” and not “if…