Relational Spirituality

The way of pray, mindfulness, meditation, and contemplation is numerous. Breathing, posture, even walking or following a labyrinth are all suggestions. I believe that it is best when one has found a method that suits them and they stick to it. Approaches are usually loosely associated with a religious background or current practices draw from these and fit with our current secular philosophy of life. I speak to the Christian tradition. The usual Christian tradition builds upo

The story of evolution is one of gradual progress mixed with some vital shifts in development creating what we might call eras or epochs. Some argue that before the big bang of evolution came the period known as involution, the gradual emergence of the explosive energy from what can best be called emptiness. (to signify the unfathomable beginning, or alpha that Teilhard de Chardin named it) before the first vital shift in development with the Planck Epoch and inflationary big

Alpha (John 1 1-3) In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God He was with God in the beginning All things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made. Creation (John I: 4,5) In him was life, and the life was the light of men The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. Jesus (John 1 : 14) And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth, We have beheld his glory, glory