“I’m spiritual, not religious” has become the mantra of baby
boomers. Did you ever wonder what that
means? It could mean they’ve embraced
the quiet space of Buddhism or it could mean they like to sleep in on
Sunday. Whatever the specificity of each
person’s definition of “spiritual,” it seem to have one commonality: I’m doin’ my own thing when it comes to god
stuff.
My spirituality seems to be a “road less taken,” but a
road nevertheless. While encouraging me to embrace my unique spiritual self, it also shows the ways unique spirituality
criss crosses with other unique spiritualities, the kind of sacred offering
that Teilhard de Jardin described as making up the evolution of the God who, in
his belief, was not fully realized until all of creation had become realized. Complicated but it makes shocking sense. What if the God is evolving based on how the universe and all of us collectively evolve!
In the spirit of de Jardin’s theology, then, our task is to live
out our own natural spirituality. What
is that? That’s your challenge--to become more aware of that very thing.
That unique spirituality might be rooted in ancient texts for some of
you, in intellectual understandings for others, in the awe you experience
watching the morning fog rise, or even in the teachings of your church.
The best way I can describe it is: Spirituality comes within those things that
call to you. Noticing what words, songs,
sayings, memes or facebook postings, movies, podcasts, natural beauty, or life
experiences stay with you, haunt you, keep coming back to you, speak to
you—these are the yeast of your spiritual nature. Roxie
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