CHIMING WITH OSWALD ON SPIRITUALITY

“Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk and live like angels if only we could stay on the mount.” Oswald Chambers

I don’t know about anyone else, but those lines make plenty of sense to me. Indeed, one thing about which I’ve been pondering this week is about the sacralizing of everyday life. Which is also to say, spirituality cannot stay in the clouds. It must descend into our everyday business in our particular valley. But this is never to say that spirituality will make all our acts, still less our thoughts, Weighty and Powerful.
No. The closest this mortal can come to describing how we need to take hold of spirituality (however we do so; my handle is Jesus Christ but you won’t catch me using Him as a club) is to see the special quality in each and every line of our world, including the healthy things we do day by day.
That’s not an easy thing to do, nor is such special quality an easy thing to handle, to ‘digest’ if you will, for we who move in mortal flesh. And Chambers realizes this; he continues thus:

“We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.”

Again, I couldn’t agree more: spirituality rolls up its sleeves and gets its hands dirty in the everyday muck which it sanctifies thereby. But the process requires work on our part. One of, and debatably, the most primary point about doing so, is to always remember that, when we try to…