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Some people keep their faith-life crammed into nice cardboard containers to keep their religion well organized, manageable and compartmentalized.
Some folks have tiny boxes where their spiritual life is squirreled away. The lid of the tiny cube is lifted only for a few painful watch-checking moments on Sunday and then drops silently closed immediately after the final hymn.
Some of us seem to have bigger containers like big Tupperware bins in which to store our religious urges, thoughts and inclinations. These bins hold more and stack elegantly with other large compartmentalized areas of life inscribed with Perma-marker labels that read; family, job, hobby, school, and secrets. These are bigger containers but they are still made for segregating our spiritual life from our real life in the real world.
Still others have huge portable storage canisters like the ones you rent from PODS in which they warehouse their larger than average faith-life. These large rusty mass storage units are still just compartments to stockpile religious assets and separate them from the whole of our being and our daily life.
I’ve been focusing lately on a simple truth which I’ve always known; faith is not made to be placed in a compartment - however colossal. Faith fits appropriately nowhere, it fits best in the "everywhere" of my life. My faith is designed to permeate every area of my thoughts, actions, decisions and relationships. Faith out of the box is a dangerous and wonderful force.
Mixed Metaphor Alert!
Faith isn’t an important spoke on the wheel of our life, it is the hub on which all the spokes find their anchor and drive.
Note to self: Don't simply buy bigger boxes.
On The iPod: Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
