Bogosity

I came across this article in Tui Motu and I’m glad to have found it published on the web. Since being around the franciscans, I’ve been leaning more and more towards this kind of faith – a faith that doesn’t rely so much on doctrines, beliefs, intellect and theology but on simple experience and reflection.

Resurgence 186 – Moore, Thomas. Natural Spirituality.

Just as clouds appear out of the evaporation and condensation of the deep waters of the sea, so a spiritual sensibility rises directly out of the human encounter with the natural world. In this way, soul and spirit remain united. In nature we find both the depths of our mysteriousness and the heights of our possibilities. We encounter in nature the most ordinary aspects of our creatureliness and the most extraordinary and sublime possibilities of creation.

Yet, as the poet Wallace Stevens wrote, “The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.” Natural spirituality is tough because it has in it no elements of superficial sentimentality and no signs of escapism. It can’t be reduced to simplistic moralism or bloodless belief. Its mysteriousness is palpable in almost every encounter with it, while its complexity is overwhelming

The whole article is excellent and worth reading.