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Spot Spiritual
"We need mountains in
our lives. Life can be flat, routine. We need
high mountains that take us
to great heights and give us an experience of God that stays with us
after we've long come down from the mountain. Nowadays we're inclined to
settle for small hills now and then because it takes too long and is too
much work to climb a mountain.
Good art can be a good
down-to-earth example of a "mountain" or "mountain-top experience." Good
literature, music, and painting can lift our heart, our spirit, to great
heights...
Then there is fasting.
When we fast, really fast, good things happen to us. Usually bodies spend
more energy on digestion than on anything else. If we significantly reduce
our food consumption or, as some people occasionally do, have only water for
24 hours, we have a great store of energy not usually available, and it can
drive us to thoughts that are far higher, wider, deeper than usual. We also
experience hunger, which puts us more closely in touch with our life, and
our death. It can be a mountain-top experience..... it's
an age-old tradition
designed to release spiritual energy within us.
Moments like that with
God are mountain-top experiences."
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