Rayne Today has an interesting post about the "religion thing." I had to comment, of course.
And then, I found this quote which is so much closer to where I am spiritually:
I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in [God] or have [God] brush your face in a breeze.Hildegarde of Bingen also speaks about God as "moisture." I shared that with my dentist after he took his hands out of my mouth. "Everytime I breathe and fog up your little mirror that you put inside my mouth, did you know that is God?" I'm pretty sure he made a note on my chart about being a religious nut-case.
-- altered quote from Donald Miller, "Blue like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality"
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Sorry I missed this post, been too busy! Here's one of my favorite poems by Rumi:
THE SPIRIT OF THE SAINTS
There is a Water that flows down from Heaven
To cleanse the world of sin by grace Divine.
At last, its whole stock spent, its virtue gone.
Dark with pollution not its own, it speeds
Back to the Fountain of all purities;
Whence, freshly bathed, earthward it sweeps again,
Trailing a robe of glory bright and pure.
This Water is the Spirit of the Saints,
Which ever sheds, until itself is beggared,
God's balm on the sick soul; and then returns
To Him who made the purest light of Heaven.
Lovely, thinking of water as a universal solvent, thinking of God as water that washes all.
Best,
~Rayne Today
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