Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi
Here's a thought that bubbled up this evening and won't go away. I am going to try to articulate it...
Humans are body, soul and spirit, intertwined. It is not compartmentalized. Any attempt to separate the spiritual from the secular will cause damage. We wound ourselves when we spend any aspect of our lives living purely for the physical, material world and ignore the spiritual component of our everyday activity.
Practicing one's faith only in a religious setting and setting it aside when in other environments denies its validity and starves the spiritual aspects of one's own existence.
Life is a continual spiritual practice.
I'm not sure that quite gets it but it's close. The thought that slapped me is that we damage our soul when we deny our spirituality...whether it's our choice or it's forced upon us by others. We are spiritual beings. We cannot disconnect that aspect of ourselves from any area of our lives without repercussions.
I found myself thinking, as I often do with such things, about Genesis. It was just such a disconnect that resulted in Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit; Cain bringing an offering that was his idea of good enough, Lot's reluctance to leave the pagan society, even with the threat to his life and family...and his daughter's unthinkable actions to preserve the family line.
Or my own 'this one time won't matter' failures over the years in a number of areas.
It does damage, and the damage is cumulative.
Fortunately God is a healer...if we're willing to let him restore the connections.
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