The Sacred
We live in a culture that has created a 'concentration camp' of reason that denies the sacred. Because the culture has tremendous powers of bitter and banal persuasion, we can be intimidated out of a profound relationship with God. Modern life is incredibly stressful. Many live lives of financial and emotional insecurity. Combined with a worldview that denies the absolute and reality of the miraculous and the mystical makes it very hard for people to believe and trust the divine.
God can give you the necessary signs to show you he is with you; you are protected, that you are being instructed by your life and not defeated by it.
Many go through a spiritual life to find detachment, to avoid the pain of reality. By seeking solace you're asking God to be a drug pusher to give you the bliss and consolation you need to get by.
God is not only love, but a love that creates and serves. If you make an authentic connection there your whole being can undergo a painful revolution. Few want to go through that. They want all the glory without the grit, all the gold without the blood, sweat and tears. The divine will not sell itself cheaply. The way is through abandoning the ego's games and petty satisfactions.
Nature is burning, two-billion people live in poverty, half the earth's species have been destroyed, television is an avalanche of trash and vulgarity, our quality of life is degrading beyond belief.
We have work to do.
Burning for God
Andrew Harvey
Love of God- Shield and Carlson
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