Wednesday, May 25, 2011

More to the point...how?

So let me be specific about the question I was trying to pose in the last post:
"How do we cultivate our spiritual life?"

Monday, May 23, 2011

More on our spiritual life...

I really appreciate all the feedback I received on the last post.  Taken as a whole, most commenters agreed that our "spiritual life" is not some subset of our life in general, but is perhaps our overarching, upper-story life.  Perhaps it would be safe to say that it is that "life" that is God centered and led, that "life" that connects us with our Creator.  John Ortberg talks about living in the "flow" of the spirit and draws on the imagery of the river of life, flowing from the garden.  When we are connected to and in that flow, we are God centered and God led.  Would it be too much to suggest that we experience the true blessings of a Christ centered, Christ led live when we bring our other "lives" (family, work, school, church) into that same flow?
So the follow up question is: how do we bring our "lives" into that same flow?  (How do we connect the upper-story with the lower-story?)
Can't wait to hear your thoughts....