Spirituality

Today we had our first class in Spirituality, given by Abbott Timothy Wright. He described Spiritituality as being about our relationship with God and how we maintain and develop that relationship.

I think that is quite a good description, but it does portray our spiritual lives as a personnel experiance. One of the wonderful things about God is that I have his whole complete and undivided attention, but at the same time do not deny or prevent anyone else having that same relationship with God.

Our whole lives then become a divine interaction with God, who draws us closer to himself in and through every experiance we have, but in particular through his Holy Word. Why? because most of the time we are not listening, being too wrapped up in ourselves in one way or another. We also meet him in the difficulties and the messiness of our lives. Jesus said take up your cross and follow me and it is in our suffering that we meet him face to face. How often though, when things go wrong, do we believe that we have failed? Often this is due to our belief that life is about success. When infact it is about our relationship to God. A God who is continually asking us to experiance him, and thereby life more fully. When we look at life like that every experiance becomes a joy, even the bad ones. There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven (Eccl 3). It makes you wonder why we worry so much doesn't it?