PROMPTS & PRACTICES | MAKE YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE NATURAL AND NATURAL LIFE SPIRITUAL

“’Everything that lives is Holy.” William Blake

Integrating your spiritual life with your natural life and vice versa is critical grounding work of establishing communion with God, yourself, and with otherness. Communion means wholeness. A process of sanctification involves a movement from disjointed and compartmentalized selves to whole self. Learning and growing to piece together, relate, and integrate our “separate” life into one whole life is at stake here. No other challenge is bigger than integrating our spiritual and natural life together.

Church sanctuary is not the only place that is holy. The reverence you bring into the church sanctuary, live it out everywhere you go and whoever you interact with, including nature around you.

Practices

• Steward your body well by walking 30 minutes a day. Brisk walking is encouraged.

• Discern spiritual voices through the five senses. Pay attention to what you see, hear, smell, touch, and taste. In that, listen to the still small voices that come to you. These voices may be so faint that you may not recognize them initially. If you are not sure, test the voices and follow through. By testing, we grow in discernment.

• Discern spiritual voices through everyday life. Pay attention to surprises, interruptions, and mundane activities. What may be random to you may contain some spiritual discoveries. At the end of the day, see if you can recall any spiritual discoveries during the day.