Religion & Spirituality

My religion is the way I live my life.

Spirituality is the Spirit’s life giving me life.

Religion is my Practice. 

Spirituality is my faith.

Religion is like the kindling, tinder, and fuelwood laid out for a campfire.  Spirituality is the fire that comes from putting a match to the wood.  A properly laid campfire will burn well and last long.  It will cook food and commence fellowship.  It provides light in the center of a circle and an atmosphere of comradery around it.

A pensiveness comes as all else is eventually faded out into the shadows.  It invites a truth of soul and a sense of stillness.  A realness comes forth from the simple elements of wood and fire.  It is just you and the fire in the midst of others but not at the center.

The warmth overcomes the coldness and the heart is warmed with stories and songs and we begin to share the things that matter.  We are comfortable and content and wish to be no other place but here, watching the fire transform the wood, producing the quiet glow of the white embers of ash. 

The Spirit will always transform the religion.

But without the wood there would be no fire.