APRIL 7
Spirituality in its broadest sense is, quite simply, a way of
life that reveals an awareness of the sacred and a relationship
with the Holy One in the midst of our human frailty,
brokenness and limitations.
—EDWARD C. SELLNERTo be faced with the loss of a loved one is to be engaged—or
reengaged more intensely—with the experience of the spir-
itual. Questions of our loved one’s survival, of our own re-
lationship to the spiritual world, of our possible communion
with the dead now or after our own death—all come to us
with new urgency.
Surely if we can summon an awareness of the Holy One
as a loving, caring reality, we shall be miles ahead! We can
bear the uncertainty of answers to our questions if we feel
that the One who is in charge cares for us all, grieves with
us when we are sad, and wills our good. This has been the
yearning, and the confidence, of believers through the ages.
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the con-
viction of things not seen,” said the apostle Paul in the Letter
to the Hebrews. These things are no less real for being “not
seen.”
In the midst of my brokenness, O Holy One, may I be made newly
aware of You.