Spirituality in Everyday Life
In a previous post I shared the definition of spirituality as having all one’s energy move in the same direction, toward one’s understanding of a higher power. All of life is connected by energy, and the same is true for spirituality. Spirituality is about being connected and aware of how that energy moves in our lives. How are you paying attention to your spirituality in everyday life?
Spirituality is about:
- A desire for meaning
- Seeking to understand
- Listening with all the senses
- Seeing the potential for goodness in everything
- A sense of the sacred in all things
- The capacity to glimpse the infinite in life
- Making the ordinary days meaningful
Sometimes life happens at warp speed. Change is so constant and relentless that we sometimes feel we are skimming the surface, just going through the motions. We struggle to make sense of it all. In these moments when our world happens at the frenetic pace of chaos, there is an ache inside us for something more. We long to slow down enough to savor the depths of our daily living.
Mindfulness
To be spiritual means to be mindful of life happening before you right now. It is about slowing down long enough to pay attention to the strands of the spirit energy woven within the simple ordinary moments of everyday life. When this awareness happens, beauty and wonder emerge, and life becomes a deeper experience of “wow.”
I write this during a week of vacation in the mountains and in front of a campfire. The smell of the fire is like sacred incense, and as the smoke rises toward the stars, I breathe in deep, abiding gratitude.
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