Sacred Pathways

How different people sense God's presence and experience spiritual growth

March 18, 2007

David Ziegel

 

In loving personal relationship conformity to another's wishes is not desirable if it is purchase at the expense of freedom and the destruction of one's unique personality.

 

God connecting with us is for the purpose of helping us develop into an intelligent, cooperative relationship with God, as beings who love each other freely.
 

Naturalist loving God in the wonders of creation
Sensate loving God with the sense
Traditionalist loving God through ritual religious practice
Acetic loving God in simplicity
Activist loving God through confrontation with evil and injustice
Caregiver loving God by loving others
Enthusiast loving God with celebration (worship)
Contemplative loving God through adoration in silence and solitude
Intellectual loving God with the mind