Jul 02, 2009
Can We Overspiritualize?
Darin and Stacey Robbins talk about our tendency to sometimes over spiritualize things in life. Finding a balance between the spirit and the physical is sometimes difficult when you’ve come from church thinking. Rediscovering a sense of normalcy is a process in the wild that takes a lot of letting go of old misconceptions.
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"This chapter, this page, this very sentence, in the cosmic story was utterly and eternally itself; no other passage that had occurred or ever would occur could be substituted for it." (from Perelandra, by CS Lewis)
That's always been my problem - how can we truly know which events are "good" and which are "bad"? What events do we say "Thank you, Jesus" to and which events do we say "I wonder why God allowed this to happen"? I think we get in trouble when we could ever think we could do this correctly. And when are life's event all Black and White? I think it's enough for me to learn to be receptive to His leadings - to do or pray whatever - and that's my prayer for others in whatever situation they find themselves.
I didn't want a 'template' or a 'formula' but I was hoping there would be an ah-ha moment when the 'round peg' of Truth clunked into the 'round hole' in my heart. It came towards the end. When you two had thought and talked it through, Stacey said something about everything being spiritual but not needing to be spiritualized. It reminded me of the quote "We are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings going through a temporary human experience." So, feeling both/either/neither several times a day every day for a lifetime, makes perfect sense to me. Stacey, I would know you were a singer even before hearing you sing as your speaking voice is so pleasant and lilting. Darin, I love you so much! Great 'poddy'.
Thanks Kathy
I was teaching a friend how to swim the other day.(45 year old girl friend)I tried to teach her first you must learn to relax and float before you can you use whatever stroke you want to use to move through the water.All of sudden it dawned on me!Christ is like the water!Just like the water Jesus will hold us up if we just relax and then from there we decide what stoke we want to use to move the water just like we decide what templates we want to use to walk our journey with Christ.But we must always relax in him!!!!!
Right after I left the IC, when everything came crashing down around me, when I felt like I had given up everything for others and in the end felt completely empty, I remember in that moment of complete defeat, God coming to me and telling me that everything I had lost would be given back to me, like Job in a way, and for some reason, he gave me the image of all the people I went to youth group with at a particular time, a group of people like family to me long ago, I thought I was out of my mind, there's no way, but three months later I joined Facebook and one by it's been happening, it's not everything I thought it would be, it's been kinda disappointing to be honest in some ways, but in other ways it's beyond my dreams,I feel it's of God but I do wonder if I'm overspiritualizing it too.