Purpose Faith and Practice is a QLSP committee that is in the process of creating a document which will represent the community's purpose, faith, and practice. This document is created by the body, for the body, as a living document that will hold our values and beliefs as we grow.
Committee Members for Fall of 2013: Deborah Shaw, Grace Ethier (clerk), Keenan Lorenzato, Nate Secrest, and Zachary Kronisch.
We invite you to share as you are led but please remember this is public, centered space.
Sunshine is a very big part of my spirituality and when I sit in the sun and feel its warm light, I can't help but feel grounded. The sight of mountains also instills a sense of wonder in me that I cannot explain.
I've found that clouds bring me a great sense of tranquility and almost always leave me in awe. In fact as I write this I'm in a car cloud gazing. Hope everyone's spring break is joyous, memorable, refreshing, and invigorating.
While I'm typically uncomfortable in the outdoors (itchy, anxious, disgusted, etc.....), I am able to find great solace in the calm of a still day. I like to sit and wait until everything seems to stop. No movement, no breeze, not even a sound. I wait for this moment because it allows for one of my deeper connections with God:
In nature, I wait for the stillness of the earth so that God's presence can truly be known. Out of the stillness and the silence, something very much alive and vocal rises. A light breeze will blow across my shoulders and I can feel God's touch. The sun will shine upon my face and I will feel God's Light warm my spirit. Leaves will rustle around me and I will hear God's answers to some of my most difficult queries. Nature has a way stopping the bustle of everyday life and encapsulating me in a connection with the Divine.
So, as much as I may rag on the outdoors, sometimes, nature is exactly the bridge for communication that my soul craves.
For me, nature and spirituality go hand in hand. I feel intimately connected the the Spirit when I am outside in any setting, but especially so in a wide open field with a clear view of the sky. That vast expanse of land with trees on the periphery and mountains or the ocean in the distance invigorates a deep part of me and reminds me that I am small and the world is big, but the Spirit is even bigger than it all. Just laying one palm down on the damp Earth or against the rough bark of a tree or on the surface of a natural body of water reconnects me with my Light within and I feel at home again. Nature is not separate from Man in my mind; we are all one and the same and we are all connected. I would love to Worship outside more often, weather permitting (I wouldn't mind the cold [being a Northerner], but I know it would make others physically uncomfortable) because I find it difficult to connect with anything more than human when I am sitting in a man-made chair in a man-made building; everything being synthetic seems to taint my spiritual experience and make it feel almost synthetic rather than True.
Sunshine is a very big part of my spirituality and when I sit in the sun and feel its warm light, I can't help but feel grounded. The sight of mountains also instills a sense of wonder in me that I cannot explain.
ReplyDeleteI've found that clouds bring me a great sense of tranquility and almost always leave me in awe. In fact as I write this I'm in a car cloud gazing. Hope everyone's spring break is joyous, memorable, refreshing, and invigorating.
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm typically uncomfortable in the outdoors (itchy, anxious, disgusted, etc.....), I am able to find great solace in the calm of a still day. I like to sit and wait until everything seems to stop. No movement, no breeze, not even a sound. I wait for this moment because it allows for one of my deeper connections with God:
ReplyDeleteIn nature, I wait for the stillness of the earth so that God's presence can truly be known. Out of the stillness and the silence, something very much alive and vocal rises. A light breeze will blow across my shoulders and I can feel God's touch. The sun will shine upon my face and I will feel God's Light warm my spirit. Leaves will rustle around me and I will hear God's answers to some of my most difficult queries. Nature has a way stopping the bustle of everyday life and encapsulating me in a connection with the Divine.
So, as much as I may rag on the outdoors, sometimes, nature is exactly the bridge for communication that my soul craves.
For me, nature and spirituality go hand in hand. I feel intimately connected the the Spirit when I am outside in any setting, but especially so in a wide open field with a clear view of the sky. That vast expanse of land with trees on the periphery and mountains or the ocean in the distance invigorates a deep part of me and reminds me that I am small and the world is big, but the Spirit is even bigger than it all. Just laying one palm down on the damp Earth or against the rough bark of a tree or on the surface of a natural body of water reconnects me with my Light within and I feel at home again. Nature is not separate from Man in my mind; we are all one and the same and we are all connected. I would love to Worship outside more often, weather permitting (I wouldn't mind the cold [being a Northerner], but I know it would make others physically uncomfortable) because I find it difficult to connect with anything more than human when I am sitting in a man-made chair in a man-made building; everything being synthetic seems to taint my spiritual experience and make it feel almost synthetic rather than True.
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