We hear people talk about sacred spaces. Actors and directors tell us the theatre becomes sacred space for them. Some people describe places where boundaries between physical life and spiritual life become thin.
Spiritual life helps us create and recognize sacred space. Another dimension of spiritual life is sacred time.
There are moments of awareness when time seems to stand still for us. The ways we usually experience time seem to melt away. Time appears not to follow the rules we try to impose on it in our everyday lives. Time overflows its banks, or evaporates, or freezes.
Time escapes our expectations and is infused with spiritual life.
The people we remember transport us through time into spiritual life. We visit new places, read new books, listen to new stories and transcend into sacred time.
There are people who help me experience sacred time, help me recognize spiritual life. We share our stories, listening and asking questions. We laugh together and cry together. The time we spend together is different from other time. Sacred time swirls around us. Spiritual life surrounds us and fills us.
As we listen deeply, the physical life around us fades into the background. Distractions fade from view. Spiritual life draws us into calm, centered awareness. Each moment holds spiritual truths for us to discover and explore. We listen, becoming open to the wisdom all around us.
We sit in sacred space, immersed in sacred time. We have the time we need to pay attention and reflect.
Spiritual life opens our eyes and hearts to appreciate sacred space and time. We open ourselves to spiritual life and we awaken to sacred time.
When does spiritual life help you experience sacred time?
Who shares sacred time for you?
[Image by Serge Melki]
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