The Spiritual Life

The spiritual life

is not a matter of doctrine

right thinking

rules

and rituals

it is a matter of seeing

it is all of life

seen from a certain perspective

it is 

waking, sleeping dreaming

eating, drinking

working

loving

relaxing, recreating

walking, standing, and breathing

understood and experienced

and seen

though the eyes of the soul

the spiritual life is simply life

seen from the vantage point

of the Spirit.

it is heaven and earth

united

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An Advent Antiphon

"Drop down, you heavens, from above and let the skies pour down the Just One"

"Let the earth open up and bud forth a Savior"
                                 
                                                       Quoted in "Starlight" by John Shea