We get the impression spiritual life is only for certain people.
Most of us know, even if we have not experienced them ourselves, there are separate places for spiritual life. Some people go to specific buildings on particular days to practice spiritual life. There are cities and locations, often historic, where people go for spiritual life.
It is almost as if people who are spiritual speak a different language from the rest of us. We see spiritual life causing people to behave differently. Spiritual life may appear to cause people to feel things more deeply, or hold their opinions more strongly.
We may experience spiritual life as outside the mainstream of our everyday lives.
It is easy for us to assume spiritual life is beyond our ordinary attention. It may be OK for some people to spend time and energy on spiritual life. It is a little difficult for us to understand how people get so caught up in spiritual life.
What difference does spiritual life make in our everyday lives? Does spiritual life really matter?
These are questions I often ask as I work with people as a spiritual life mentor, or spiritual director. People come to me with questions, fears, and challenges about things they have believed for years.
We often get to a point in our lives where the answers we have accepted no longer work for us. It may not be because we have gained new information, but because we begin to see things differently.
My work is about helping people discover the spiritual life they may have missed or ignored.
Spiritual life is about what is happening, or arriving, next.
How does spiritual life affect your everyday life?
Who helps you see things in new ways, or discover what might happen next?
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