Thought for the Day

There is clearly far more to Spirit-created living than can be detected by blood pressure and pulse rate. All the "vital signs" of botany, biology, an physiology combined hardly begin to account for life; if it doesn't also extend into matters far more complex than our circulatory and respiratory systems--namely, matters of joy and love, faith and hope, truth and beauty, meaning and value--there is simply not enough there to qualify as "life" for the common run of human beings on this planet earth. Most of us may not be able to define "spirituality" in a satisfactory way, but few of us fail to recognize its presence or absence. And to feel ourselves enhanced by its presence and diminished by its absence. Life, life, and more life--it's our deepest hunger and thirst.
--Eugene Peterson, The Wisdom of Each Other