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Many people are on a spiritual search - a search for meaning and purpose in life. A search for ways to cope with the stress and pain of life. Your spirit is that part of your being that sees beneath the surface of life, and holds the image of God wihin you. It is that part of you that is at peace when you connect with God.

If you ignore God, and try to make sense of life through unhealthy attachments or addictions to money, sex, power, work, relationships (even though those pursuits are not wrong in themselves when kept in balance and within safe boundaries), your spirit will be restless. Saint Augustine said, "You have made us for yourself, O  Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests on you."

The following statement about spirituality is on the Pastoral Care Board in St George's Hospital Kew. 

Spirituality is my being, my inner person. It is who I am - unique and alive. It is my body, my thinking, my feelings, my judgement and my creativity. My spirituality motivates me to choose meaningful relationships and pursuits.

Through my spirituality I give and receive love; I respond to God, other people, a sunset, a symphony and spring. I am driven forward, sometimes because of pain, sometimes in spite of pain.

Spirituality allows me to reflect on myself.  I am a person becasue of my spirituality - motivated and enabled to value, to worship and to communicate with the Holy, the Transendent.

Are you taking care of your spirituality? 

  - Lynette Leach

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Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved.
 
 

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