I’m revisiting Rohr’s “Everything Belongs” once again for a number of reasons. The piece that hit me hard this morning as I am, again, unable to get into town to attend our chosen House of Worship is this idea that there are three things we must having in our ongoing relationship with God.
We must have teaching, community and “sitting.” Sitting is an experience of the Holy One. What I love about “going to church” so often IS that moment where I sit in the presence of the Holy One. I suppose that each of us experiences this in our way if we’re seeking it; a walk in the woods or along a low hanging mist in a field, listening to the sound of a baby sleeping, just being still or even finding it in the eye of an emotional hurricane of life’s daily-ness.
What is most powerful though, I believe is to experience The Holy One not as an individual but IN community and IN the teaching…and there it is… does that answer the question of “why go to church?”
There’s the piece I’ve seen today…and it makes me sad to realize how scattered my spiritual life has become…I get community, I get teaching, I get the “sitting” but it is so dis-integrated one from another. I often wonder if in this modern (or post modern or post post modern) world being in the same place at the same time is possible.
so…that’s all I got today…questions…
sometimes it is enough, I think to ask the question…or perhaps more precisely it is that it’s a place to begin…it is enough for now.
