I had a wonderful conversation with a minister friend of mine last week. I was doing some video work for him and we were chatting. He asked about church, kids, life in general. The he asked how I was doing spiritually. I replied, I just told you! He looked at me oddly and said "you just told me about your world and what's going on, I want to know about your spiritual life".
This took us down an interesting road that was very revealing to me. I realized in a moment that my thinking is not at all what it used to be. Perhaps in that moment I was finally able to verbalize this new journey.
When I spoke to him about the things that are going on in my life; daddy, husband, concert promoter, venue manager, funeral director, city councilman, I was telling him about my spiritual life. About ALL my life. I no longer understand why I have to separate my daily living activities from my "spiritual" activities. To steal from Rob Bell, "Everything is Spiritual".
It was his opinion only those activities where you mention or specifically interject God or Jesus are truly spiritual activities. There was a very strong suggestion that only activities at, or endorsed, by the church would qualify. So you could not promote a concert and bring the community together to enjoy artistic presentation of music and call it a spiritual thing unless there was an invitation or a sign hanging around that said sponsored by God. That my wife's passion for blood drives and Relay for Life are not spiritual events.
It is true that God brought His future to us on the first Easter. The Kingdom is here and we can participate. Partners with the Creator in the redemption of all things. I don't think that my life's journey needs to be separated into parts that are spiritual and nonspiritual. I don't understand that at all anymore.
About Me
- Cass
- I'm desperately searching for new community. Seeking the way of Jesus. I find that relevance is easy to accomplish but meaningful community and what it could be is harder to establish. I'm a constructionist stuck in deconstruction for the moment.
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2 comments:
the concept of departmentalizing your life is foreign indeed but an easy trap to fall into. the idea that i need to have a management system so i put my spiritual life, my mental life, my emotional life, my work life, my physical life, my family life, etc. into categories and that somehow allows me to evaluate how well i am doing in each category. mostly nonsensical.
holistic life is what jesus was and is about. eternal life now and future in all aspects (which is really just one aspect anyways).
You should publish your Facebook notes on here as blog posts.
Lol... I tend to comment more on the blogging world than I do on there.
Just a thought.
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