Early stage religion focuses on identifying sacred places, sacred time, and seemingly sacred actions that then leaves the overwhelming majority of life unsacred. People are told to look for God in certain special places and in particular events--usually, it seems, ones controlled by the clergy...
For those who have learned how to see fully, everything--absolutely everything--is "spiritual." This eventually and ironically leads to what the Lutheran mystic Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) called "religionless Christianity." Bonhoeffer saw that many people were moving beyond the scaffolding of religion to the underlying and deeper Christian experience itself. 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.
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Richard Rohr's reflection for today resonated strongly with me. (The Bonhoeffer quote has been added to give Rohr detractors credibility.)
And while I am a regular churchgoer, I have found that my evolving spirituality and my search for God's presence in the daily events of my life have led me to this place.