Introduction

For many years now I have written about spirituality in the every-day. It is the every-day in which we live. Being human we often long for something more transcendent than the ordinary, but then we quite often miss that which is numinous and extraordinary right under our noses.

Spirit is everywhere, even in the darkest hells of human creation. As the psalmist wrote, “Where can I go from your spirit? . . . If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.” That God’s Presence is everywhere is understood by many religions. We may be shaped by our cultural and familial upbringing and by specific faith traditions—but they do not ultimately define our relationship with God. It is a personal experience. We must show up for it, and we do so reliably through prayer and meditation and in the living of our daily life. If we could describe this as a relationship, a capacity to fully attend to God’s Presence in the present, then we can meditate and pray anywhere and at any time...

Taken from Simple ways by Gunilla Norris