The spiritual life has to begin with a premise that God can be experienced, encountered. Starting from here is harder than it seems. Faith is not an unmovable feature inside us. It is less a mountain, and more an ocean, always moving, sometimes deep, sometimes shallow. Sometimes the places on the shore the water used to reach are now dried up. But the work of the spiritual life is to receive that constant shifting, not as failure of belief, but as part of the process.
When we think of faith as practice we move beyond ideas into spiritual connection. Our lives become lived with God, deepening beyond the intellect. And when that with-God-ness settles in the places that can’t be touched by the arguments or proofs or certainties of those who believe or don’t believe, there becomes room for knowing and resting in Reality.
Let’s talk about the idea of deepening our understanding of God in this episode of The Slow Way.
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