Posted 784 days ago
What is Spiritual Practice
By Christine Sine
Tom & I are currently in Winnipeg at the Mennonite Summit for North America. Our keynote is behind us and I am getting ready for a workshop on GodSpace: Creating new rhythms for life. As I prepare I have been reflecting on what spiritual practices really are.
We like to spiritualize our observances and put them into a tidy box but I realize more and more how much we need to break out of that kind of thinking. A spiritual practice is anything that connects us to God – a thought about the cleansing power of the spirit as we have our shower, a revelation about the wonder of God as we look at a flower, an encounter with God reflected in the face of a stranger or the discipline of God administered through the voice of a friend are all spiritual practices that we both need to acknowledge and deliberately look for. I think that we miss out on much that communicates the presence of God because we are not looking and listening for God in our daily activities.
Where are you most aware of God? What draws you close? What makes you feel distanced from God?
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I feel most aware of God when I am set apart of all the noise and begin my space of silence. What draws me close of Him, is when I connect this experience of meditation with any situation or issue that I see in my community or country, that needs to change for good. I feel distanced from God when I realize that I am wasting time in no doing things and actions that could work for this change.
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