Reality

This is my first REAL post in which I neeed to state the obvious. If you have not figured it out yet... you should understand that the world is more than what it appears on the surface. I am not talking about imaginary friends, gnomes, ghouls, and the stuff of fairy tales/ children's stories. The "more than it appears" that I am talking about is the fact that we live in a physical world with a spiritual dynamic. Most of the western world struggles and puts a lot of effort into understanding the physical world as well they should, but put up the blinders regarding any "spiritual" reality since it is not as "concrete" as the physical world and cannot be "seen" and therefore cannot be measured or undergo a battery of physical tests. I am no eastern mystic but it seems "reasonable" to me that some kind of due diligence is in order to figure out something about the metaphysical beyond what can be seen/touched/smelled/tasted/heard.
Now this is getting way ahead of myself but it would also seem "reasonable" to me that one reason we might even be able to perceive or think about something beyond the physical realm is because there is some aspect of ourselves that makes this possible, the "spiritual" component of ourselves.

The motivation I have for writing this today is that I want to be aware of the spiritual side of things every day. Far too often I think I just go along with the rest of the practice of my culture which is to see things only from one dimension and ignore that there might be a bigger picture going on all around me. I have to think that ignoring the metaphysical nature of my existence could cause a large host of problems by making wrong moves. For example, doing the right thing at the wrong time and the wrong thing at the right time, because I do not understand things as they really are being played out in all dimensions.

Also I don't want to live in a rut, doing the same things day after day, even when they fail to bring any sort of progress.

I think too that a lot of this is spelled out in the Bible of which I have not paid a whole lot of attention to lately. I think I should at least pray the Lord's prayer every morning to get each day's thinking started in the right direction. One of the things that has nudged me toward this "moment of clarity" was reading about some people that have had extraordinary survival experiences.... from an old Larry King live show I think from around 2006.

All I know is I need all the help I can get and I don't want to be like everyone else and make light of what is more important than anything... The spiritual dimension. In fact, I am often quite literally amazed at the incredible ability of some people to ignore or discard all things spiritual and that in spite of overwhelming evidence that might be staring them in the face. I do not wish to continue blinding myself like that. I want to be aware of, include, and embrace it.

Where to look? That is easy. The Bible. And also to open my ears to others that are already in this path. Lately, I have been most impressed with

Revive Our Hearts

by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. I listen to it on the radio after dropping my kids off for school. I know it is a ministry to women by women but there is something about it that is right on the mark as far as I am concerned.