We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Teilhard is one of my favorite philosophers/theologians. He was a Jesuit priest and scientist. He was often on the wrong side of Roman orthodoxy on certain matters.
This quote just popped up in my reading. I started to contemplate on it.
What if… What if we lived as if we were spiritual beings? What if we stepped outside our human wrapper and saw life from a spiritual perspective?
Would we get so wrapped up in worrying about what others are doing? Would we take a broader view of issues? Could we stop being as narrow minded as we often are and start seeing the world and its inhabitants more as God sees it (us)?
Would we be so insistent about formulating rules for others to follow in order for them to prove to us that they are “Christian” or “saved”?
Would we see the spiritual side of people? Discern the evil from the good and shun the evil?
We would live like Paul describes in Galatians. Or like Jesus described in the Sermon on the Mount. Or like Isaiah or Micah described.
Be free, Paul said in Galatians. Live in the spirit, receive God’s grace, and live a life of freedom.
And what is freedom? Living in the spirit and doing God’s will is freedom.
Faith Venture 
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