Developing A Spirituality
Spirituality is simply building your relationship with God and growing your personal awareness of God in your everyday life. In any relationship, there needs to be communication. We first need to communicate with God.
What's Stopping Us? — Why can't we make time to grow closer to God? We lead active lives that take us in all directions, and the pace never seems to let up. We already have our set routines, which makes it difficult to change our daily lives in order to make additional time to work on our spiritual growth. We just don’t have the time.
What’s The Secret? — It can be very simple with a little direction. The secret is to start out slowly, one small step at a time. Don’t plan a huge program that you won’t realistically be able to stick to at the first interruption. In building any relationship you first need to communicate. How do we communicate with God? We communicate through reading, listening, prayer, and meditation. Give it a try, it's not that hard. In fact, it can be a welcomed break in the middle of a busy day.
How Do I Start? — One good way to start is to read the daily Readings from the Mass even if you can’t get to Mass itself. This only takes 5 minutes at the beginning of each day. Everyone can spare 5 minutes. In the Readings, you are listening to the Word of God . . . . you are communicating with God. There, you’re on your way!
What’s The Secret? — It can be very simple with a little direction. The secret is to start out slowly, one small step at a time. Don’t plan a huge program that you won’t realistically be able to stick to at the first interruption. In building any relationship you first need to communicate. How do we communicate with God? We communicate through reading, listening, prayer, and meditation. Give it a try, it's not that hard. In fact, it can be a welcomed break in the middle of a busy day.
How Do I Start? — One good way to start is to read the daily Readings from the Mass even if you can’t get to Mass itself. This only takes 5 minutes at the beginning of each day. Everyone can spare 5 minutes. In the Readings, you are listening to the Word of God . . . . you are communicating with God. There, you’re on your way!
Recommended Beginning Sites — The following sites might give you a good overview on meditation and developing spiritual growth before you start your 5 minute daily readings.
• www.livingcatholicism.com/archives/2007/09/personal-spirit.html
• http://ezinearticles.com/?Meditation:-All-About-Catholic-Meditation&id=559728
• www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/
• http://ezinearticles.com/?Meditation:-All-About-Catholic-Meditation&id=559728
• www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/
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