COFFEE BREAK 251

+ A wonderful Spirituality and Practice course comes to an end today: Practicing Spiritualty with Brother David Steindl-Rast.  The lessons are readings from his books. Lesson 40, the last lesson, is "Come Alive."  What makes you come alive?  Here is the reading:

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of our existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being. Someone will say, "I come alive when I listen to music," or "I come to life when I garden," or "I come alive when I play golf." Wherever we come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual. And then we can say, "I know at least how one is spiritual in that area." To be vital, awake, aware, in all areas of our lives, is the task that is never accomplished, but it remains the goal. Since we all know what it means to be alive in at least one area, we have some sense of what it must mean to be ablaze with the Holy Spirit in all of one's life.
— Brother David Steindl-Rast in MUSIC OF SILENCE

You can find a lot of wisdom from Brother David and others at http://www.gratefulness.org/