MEETING OUR NEED

The following is a virtual how-to manual for meeting the need for spiritual help: 

First is calamity. We must meet utter defeat in some vital area of life. All human resources having failed to solve the problems. We are utterly desperate.

The next common point is admission of defeat; we acknowledge our own defeat as utter and absolute.

The third common denominator is an appeal to a Higher Power. This cry for help could take many forms, and it might or might not be in religious terms.

 -- adapted (lifted} from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

It is important...it is vital...to remember that in our walking-around world, meeting the need for spiritual help can come by way of a dreaded medical diagnosis, the death of a relationship, or a broken fingernail...each qualifies as "calamity" to the material mind. 

Equally vital to remember is the bottom-line: the need to appeal to a Higher Power which might or might not be in religious terms. In short, love and laugh.

Thank you.