Spirituality is the process of opening the heart to the sacred and re-centering ourselves in God in whom we live, move and have our being. The experiences of this world leave us with hard, calloused, scarred, distracted hearts which must be renewed and reoriented to the ways of the Kingdom. We therefore gather together in order to engage in spiritual practices that will serve as incubators for the heart and mediators of the sacred.

 

Spirituality is engaging in a journey that opens the heart to the God who is already here. The fruit of this journey is compassion. The absence of the presence of compassion is the central test for discerning whether something is “of God.” Compassion is to feel the feelings and situation of another and to be moved in our hearts to act upon those compassionate feelings.