Light Within All Light

20 Sep

I invite you to read the following paragraph slowly, thoughtfully, pausing as the Spirit suggests, and then to hold it up against your means and methods of encountering God.

“Spiritual awareness (is) about being aware of God in the midst of the change and movement and flow of life, in the rising of the morning sun, in the work and relationships of daily life, in the great struggles of society and nation, in alertness to the interior life of the soul, in times of rest and sleep and even dreaming. God is at the heart of all life, in both the visible and invisible. We don’t have to try to reach God through acts of devotion, for God is closer to us than our very breath…this is not pantheism. It is rather to believe…that God is the Being on which all being rests, the Light within all light, the Life at the heart of all that has life.”
(Listening For The Heartbeat Of God, J. Philip Newell, p. 76)

Sit with these words today as if sitting with a friend. You are.

One Response to “Light Within All Light”

  1. gz's avatar
    gz September 20, 2025 at 6:10 am #

    So are you.

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