The Encounter - No. 27

Encountering God is a challenging topic to write on. The last few months, it has become clear to me that it’s something we don’t talk enough about. In Note 12, I wrote on the separation of the sacred and the secular. We tend to see sacred things as different from the rest of life, and so they get relegated to church, retreats, and quiet times. We often struggle to see the spiritual overlaying every part of our lives, even the most mundane things. We are spirit and flesh. Without acknowledging and living from that awareness, we trap ourselves in dualistic thinking. When we embrace that we are spiritual and that God is with us in all things, then we must ask what does that mean and how might it look?