Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard.

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.