Spiritual
Expansion
Some
of us are stuck between the worlds when it comes to spiritual
matters. The traditional church or temple of our childhood took us so
far, but now feels stuck in the twentieth century, or even further
back in time. It is monolithic and unwieldy, and seems increasingly
disconnected from the real world, and most especially from all things
spiritual. Yet we crave a connection with Spirit that is alive and
real. We want reassurance that there is something bigger and better
than ourselves and our egocentric societies.
We've
reached a period in history when the institutions that have
functioned so well for so long—religion, industry, government,
business—no longer reflect the will of the people, nor operate in
the interest of common good. It feels as though they have become
independent entities, operating of, by and for themselves. We the
people expect more. We are diverse and divided on ideas of what that
“more” should be, and the gulf between us seems at times non-navigable.
The
one place we may all connect, if we will, is at the level of
spiritual awareness. It does not require that we go out, but that we
go in. That we focus on our inner resources and where they connect
with the rest of humanity. If we focus on opening rather than
closing, expanding rather than contracting, abundance rather than
want, and compassion rather than fear, and allow these spiritual
gifts to flow out of us energetically for even fifteen minutes a day,
we would feel differently about ourselves and our world. The first
step in spiritual expansion is willingness to let go of the hard line
we are treading between what is “right” and what is “wrong,”
and begin to focus instead on what is possible. Don't expect these
resources to come from without. They can only be found here, inside.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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