Wake Up!

Do you have a body?  Don’t sit on the porch!

Go out and walk in the rain!

If you are in love, then why are you asleep?

Wake up, wake up!

You have slept millions and millions of years

Why not wake up this morning?

              David Steindle-Rast, quoted by Barbara Brown Taylor, Altar in the World

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what does it mean

to be spiritual?

to respond to the Sacred

authentically

staunchly

dynamically?

what does it mean to let Sacred

roll through one’s soul

setting one on fire

with Holy Passion?

somehow we have decided

that being spiritual

being tangled up with Sacred Presence

is about rituals

and profound tomes

theological assertions

meditation

and prayer

those activities have their place

(I suppose)

although I suspect they may be more effective

at putting our souls to sleep

a sad thing

when what we really need to do

is

“wake up”!

our spiritual lives

are about feet that move

hands that help

hearts that sing

it is more about

walks in the rain than about sleeping in the pew,

and laughter and love,

than pious prayers

bouncing around a half empty sanctuary

Our faith should wake us up

grab our senses

titillate us

enliven us

make us tingle

When your times with Sacred

make you feel like you just fell in love?

That’s spirituality