How do you feed the fire of spiritual life?
At times, spiritual life almost roars through me. Its energy melts away what is not important. The flame of spiritual life purifies what I think, how I feel, what I want. It is beyond my control.
The power of spiritual life works sacred changes in me.
There are other times when it feels like the fire of spiritual life in me is almost out. It is smoky. It does not give off very much heat or light. It feels like spiritual life has burned itself down to glowing embers.
The cold darkness grows deeper around, and within, me.
There are few things I enjoy watching as much as fire. The flame of a candle, a fire in the fireplace, a campfire in the great outdoors. Fire tells deep truths.
Fire does not happen spontaneously. Fire needs a spark, fuel to burn, and oxygen to breathe.
Spiritual life is like fire. Even with sparks of sacred energy and depth all around and within us, spiritual life needs to be fed and it needs to breathe.
There are times when spiritual life in me goes hungry. Sometimes I do not add fuel; sometimes I smother it by loading it with huge timbers that do not catch fire. The challenge for me is to recognize what strengthens my spiritual life and to feed it well.
The fire of spiritual life is extinguished without fuel.
There are times when spiritual life in me gasps for oxygen. I get so busy, so caught in what needs to be done, that I forget to take a spiritual breath.
Without the oxygen that breathing provides, through contemplation and reflection, the fire of spiritual life goes out.
What feeds your spiritual life?
Have you taken a spiritual breath today?
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