Do you live a divided life?
Balancing job, home, family, and hobbies is one form of division.
The division I’m referring to is between material and spiritual. There was no room for the spiritual in my life. Of course, when I thought of spiritual, I thought religion. Today I recognize a difference.
My materialistic life equaled excavating a gravel pit. My focus was on protecting myself from the stones and equipment. My life seemed empty and meaningless.
Once I began my journey through therapy and Twelve Step groups, I discovered a Spirit, which was always present. I was just incapable of contacting It. Years later my focus changed. I could look up and SEE. At dawn the western pit wall shimmered in clear icy light. At evening, the eastern rocks held a rosy hue, a gift of the setting sun.
My eyes followed the spiral pit path past solid and loose stone displaying shades of gray, yellow and brown. A small buttery bloom nestled on the road’s edge. I climbed until I stood over it, then plucked it and observed it closely. Hundreds maybe thousands of thin golden petals spread in layers from the center. Each petal had a central vein reaching out to a v-shaped brown-edged notch. The blossom’s middle held a myriad of stamen like lemon lollypops. The flower was awesome. My view of a dandelion would never be the same. I now refer to a dandelion infested lawn as “happy grass”.
A gravel pit wasn’t where I really discovered the exquisiteness of a dandelion. My point is the lesson. When spirituality touches every aspect of daily, personal, and business life, our existence is deeply enriched.