Seeking Spirituality

This was a thought that Jessica left us with:

"Spirituality is not something on the fringes an option for those with a particular bent.... We do not wake up in this world calm and serene, having the luxury of choosing to act or not to act. We wake up crying, on fire with desire, with madness.  What we did with that madness is our spirituality.

Long before we do anything explicitly religious at all, we have to do something about the fire that burns within us. What we do with that fire, how we channel it, is our spirituality. Thus we all have a spirituality whether or not we want one, whether we are religious or not. Spirituality is more about whether or not we can sleep at night than about whether or not we are religious.

It is about being integrated or falling apart, about being within community or being lonely, about being in harmony with  mother earth or being alienated from her

What shapes our actions is our spirituality."

Ronald Rolheiser, 'Seeking Spirituality'