ON NOT BEING SPIRITUAL:

Eugene Peterson says that in his 45 years of pastoral experience, the most distressing question he’s asked is: “Pastor, how can I be spiritual?” His answer: How about starting by loving your husband or your kids? Even for the mystics, moments of rapture and ecstasy are rare and unexpected. The notion of being intimate with God is also misleading, he says. Intimacy with God is like any other form of intimacy: in marriage, for example, you don’t feel that intimate with your mate all the time. “Spirituality is no different from what we’ve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading scripture rightly. It’s just ordinary stuff?”

(Christianity Today)

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