Sometime within the last year or so, I remember coming across an article in a travel magazine praising some different resorts or travel spots in the South Pacific. I was struck when the article said that at one of the spots (it was some sort of spa) if you did something special there- something that possibly involved learning to stand on your head while meditating behind a waterfall- that it would help you become spiritually revitalised and more in-tune with spiritual powers, or something like that. I guess that what I found so striking about that is the fact that so many people really don't have any idea about where to find truth, or how to have a "spiritual experience," or how to feel close to God, or find peace. So many people think that in order to experience something spiritual they have to spend thousands of dollars taking a trek half way around the world to spend a year in deep meditatation on a mountain side in the Himalayas, or in huge monastery in India, or on their head behind a Tahitian waterfall. They don't realize or understand that truth and "spiritual experiences" are, in a way, much easier to come by than that.
To feel close to God, or to have a "spiritual experience," or to reach some sort of absolute spiritual truth usually does require effort or some sort of intense seeking. It may even require a lot of time and patience. And, it most certainly requires desire and an open heart and mind. But, rarely, does God demand us to sail across an ocean and trek through a jungle just so that we can experience something spiritual. God reveals truth and gives peace to those who seek it through prayer and study of His words, even to those whom never leave their home state. He doesn't keep it hidden upside-down behind some secret waterfall in Tahiti, accessible only to those with thick pocket books. I promise.
To feel close to God, or to have a "spiritual experience," or to reach some sort of absolute spiritual truth usually does require effort or some sort of intense seeking. It may even require a lot of time and patience. And, it most certainly requires desire and an open heart and mind. But, rarely, does God demand us to sail across an ocean and trek through a jungle just so that we can experience something spiritual. God reveals truth and gives peace to those who seek it through prayer and study of His words, even to those whom never leave their home state. He doesn't keep it hidden upside-down behind some secret waterfall in Tahiti, accessible only to those with thick pocket books. I promise.
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