Spiritual Path

What we think or say about God provides the framework to talk about the spiritual dimension of our lives. It puts words on our yearning for the Divine, a yearning that opens us to spiritual formation. But in order to respond to this yearning – to grow – we need to develop habits that open us to the creative love of God. We need to walk a spiritual path. There are many ways to do that. For some it means a discipline of meditation, for some, it means experiencing nature, for some being absorbed in music, or experiencing varied forms of worship. Whatever the mode, walking this path opens us to the creative love of God and so provides the interior formation that drives our growth. That is why we encourage and provide opportunities for people to take steps along a spiritual path.

We begin with the assumption that God is love, which we take to mean that God is, by God’s very nature, always and forever, breathing value into our lives. (It’s a freeing thought, really. There is nothing you can do to keep God from being God. So, if you think that God has it in for you because you aren’t living up to some idea you have of what is acceptable, we’re just not buying it.) But in order to work and live in concert with this Divine creative love - in order that we might grow - we need to cultivate the discipline of reflecting on our lives and habits. From that awareness, we yearn for and seek to be more completely formed by the creative power of God’s love.