Holiness Comes from Within

For me, it’s not about believing in Jesus or Buddha or God in the way most people think about religion or faith. My experience of holiness is in beauty and nature and creativity of all kinds.  I chastise myself for not making a commitment to this faith or that practice.  But the truth is, all of life is my church because all of life is sacred.  I live by spiritual principles taught by all religions; kindness, love, compassion, Sava, Ahimsa to name a few.  I practice meditation and prayer in many forms; walking, paying attention, being fully present, creating, kneeling under the full moon, drawing tarot cards, drumming.  It’s not about the act, it is about the intention.

I have experienced that saying “YES” to the mystery unfolding within me and in the world around me is what brings me closer to my truth.  If I am definitive about anything, it is that I lack the ability to comprehend and understand the whole of what “God” is.  Rather than stay in mental gyrations, I open myself to all the possibilities of where I might be made aware of some aspect of the immensity of Spirit/God/Creator.  Of course, I want to put a human face to it but even a “bright light” experience is not the whole of God.

Living into the mystery requires me to be open-minded, open-hearted, and willing to believe that the something unknowable to me is intimately familiar and loving.  I know this because it created in me the desire to know it and love it.  My holy of holies is within.

~ Janice