"Thoughts On Spirituality And Life"
Life is Spirituality, Spirituality is Life. Many of us, including myself, fail to realize that every moment is Spiritual. We don't connect to our "spiritual" side only when we pray, meditate, or read scripture.
Everything is spiritual.
We are spiritual beings, whether we believe in spirituality or not. In that way, everything we connect with is spiritual. Our connection with other people is
spiritual, our connection with the earth is spiritual, our connection with the food we eat, the water we drink, the touch of a hand, the birth of a baby, the sound of a storm, all Spiritual.
It helps me to put things, such as the earth, in terms of its relation with God. When I look at the earth as just an object to be used and consumed, I feel no responsibility, no connection to it. But when I look at the earth as creation, created by God in all of His perfection and glory, then its something to be
cherished, to be taken care of.
The Tree
(Psalm 96:9-13)
9 Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness;
tremble before him, all the earth.
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns."
The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;
he will judge the peoples with equity.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
12 let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;
13 they will sing before the LORD, for he comes,
he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in his truth.
This is talking about Christ's second coming. Isaiah and Romans also
refer to this event when Creation will be restored. You see that nature will rejoice and praise!
Think about The Tree. The Tree is spiritual, but do you
allow yourself to have a spiritual connection to the tree? In today's world, we stand disconnected most of the time from our resources.. trees, food,,
ect... Imagine if you were in the forest standing with the trees you knew were going to become your house. Knowing that these trees are creation
miracles, created for the glory of God. This is where your connection is made... You can
smell the forest,
touch the trees,
see how tall they are,
listen to the wind moving threw the leaves.. Now you can look at the tree.. connect "You Tree, you will become part of the structure of my house, you will provide me shelter, you may also become the table where I will eat, or maybe the desk where I will study and pray. Thank You God for this Tree. I pray that You are glorified in the way your tree is used."
Now when you walk into your new home, you see the wood that provides the structure, you see your new table, you sit at your new desk. This
isn't just a house.. you remember The Tree, you remember the
smell of the forest,
touch of the tree,
sound of the leaves.. you remember the connection with your Father's creation.
What I'm trying to say here is that we can find this Spiritual connection everywhere we look. The hard part is getting
yourself to look.
"Thoughts on Spirituality and Life" is the subtitle to this blog. I find that
the more spiritual connections I make, the deeper my realtionship with God, and more life I have. I encourage, even if I
didn't make that much sense to you, that you would pray and think about Spirituality, stop and think about the things around you.. the people you see every day.. the hands you shake.
Don't be afraid to make connections, and allow these new connections with people and creation to change you.
May you walk in the fullness of who God is and who He's created you to be.
- Patrick John
