Tag: Spirituality
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Living with the Lights On
Perhaps your parents were always telling you to turn off lights in order to not waste electricity. That was my dad. As soon as I left a room, the light was to be off. Honestly, as a child I wasn’t very good at turning lights off, and he was frequently exasperated with my brother and…
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Letting Go & Spirituality
Attachment is necessary and desirable in life. Our human experience and condition, of frailty and weakness, and of relational longing and desire for union, means that we naturally and necessarily seek healthy bonds in life. The crucial question is to what or to whom should we be attached, and its corollary, from what and who…
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Spiritual Ambition
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. Philippians 2:3-4 Paul could have said “fleshly ambition” instead of “selfish ambition,” and it would have been wholly consistent with how he often…
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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…