There are people who seem to think spiritual life is super human.
Some of us appear to believe in superheroes with special powers to help us get out of trouble. Other people have faith in their own ability to control life and create positive results. For other people, spiritual life is so far beyond them they prefer not to think about it at all.
Even people who embrace spiritual life act as though it were separate from their everyday experiences. Some people try to confine spiritual life to particular places or days of the week. It is as though they divide their lives into different compartments, natural and supernatural.
It is easy for us to want to differentiate between human and spiritual life. We try to understand and control the world, and people, around us by compartmentalizing. We expect to deal with one set of situations in one way and other sets in separate ways.
Most of us think we can hold spiritual life at arms length. We believe we can choose which aspects of life we want to experience and which we do not. We tend to have a disjointed, arbitrary understanding of spiritual life.
For me, it is very difficult to separate spiritual life from everyday life. Spiritual life draws us to trust and celebrate the deepest parts of who we are. Our actions, the work we do, are everyday reflections of deep, Sacred truths.
Spiritual life is about everyday experiences like love and sex, life and death. Spiritual life infuses everyday life, giving it meaning and purpose.
We are human because of our spiritual life. Spiritual life shows us how human we are.
How does spiritual life inform your everyday humanity?
What is your everyday experience and reflection of spiritual life?
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