intersections: Sabbath Grace

May 25, 2007

Sabbath Grace

Here's a quote from Joan Chittister to start your Sabbath:

Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.
(Courtesy of Sojourners, Verse and Voice, May 25, 2007)

What about you? Where do you see the grace of God in the ordinary, material, and even mundane things of your life? Or are we still waiting for some disembodied transcendence to overtake us?

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- Martin Luther King, Jr.