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Primitive religion is not believed, it is danced!

Arthur Darby Nock

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

Elizabeth Browning



Wednesday, December 30, 2015

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

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