But these are questions the spirit asks first when we are alone. In the mysterious chemistry of God working with us, that is the way it must be. In other words, God may use our loneliness, pain or dissatisfaction to touch us and get our attention. With a forwardness our culture has not heard in awhile, we hear today the call for a spirituality. We learn to pay attention to the glimpses of it.
Angels are best sellers and TV stars.
Spirituality is in. That's good and proper and necessary. But it isn't enough. The spirituality we express here today, in this place and quite consciously, is ancient, and yet ever new, and evolving Christian tradition is a grounded tradition. It's grounded because it is personified.