We tend to make a very unfortunate, yet understandable, division between the sacred and the profane worlds. Early-stage religion limits the search for God to a very small field.
In Christian mysticism, there is no distinction between sacred and profane. The whole universe and all events are sacred (doorways to the divine) for those who know how to see. In other words, everything that happens is potentially sacred if you allow it to be. Our job as humans is to make the admiration of reality and adoration of God fully conscious and intentional. Then everything is a prayer and an act of adoration. “If we but knew how to adore, we could travel through the world with the tranquility of the great rivers. But only if we know how to adore.” – Eloi Leclerc
Once we can accept that God is in all situations and that God can and will use even bad situations for good, then everything and everywhere becomes an occasion for good and an encounter with God.
God’s plan is so perfect that even sin, tragedy, and painful deaths are used to bring us to divine union, just as the cross was meant to reveal. For those who learned to see rightly, fully, and therefore truthfully, everything is “spiritual and sacred.” They are eventually and ironically led to “religionless Christianity” – moving beyond the scaffolding of religion to the underlying and deeper Christian experience itself.
Romans 8:28 “And we know that God causes EVERYTHING to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”
