How do you feed your spirit?

[You just never know]

Knox United in downtown Calgary is open during the day so I often slip away from work and make my way a few blocks over and just sit in the sanctuary. I chill out from work and listen for the still small voice of Creator. Sunday morning worship can be busy rather than spirit feeding at times. Just being in a sacred space with quiet and tranquility feeds my spirit. Hillhurst United has Wednesday evening music services where peaceful meditative music is performed and I have had mystical experiences were the music or the candles do things.

 

[crazyheart]

And dog spelt backward is God.

 

[You just never know]

And dog spelt backward is God.

Woof!

 

[Hermann]

Knox United in downtown Calgary is open during the day so I often slip away from work and make my way a few blocks over and just sit in the sanctuary. I chill out from work and listen for the still small voice of Creator. Sunday morning worship can be busy rather than spirit feeding at times. Just being in a sacred space with quiet and tranquility feeds my spirit. Hillhurst United has Wednesday evening music services where peaceful meditative music is performed and I have had mystical experiences were the music or the candles do things.

Hi You-just-never-know: Welcome to wondercafe!

Your way of refreshing the spirit sounds great! Many of us find and refresh our spirit when turning inward in meditation and contemplation.

You just never know when or where the miracle might happen, eh?

 

[KayTheCurler]

I'll add my welcome to you, You just never know. Neat name! I agree that you have found a great way to acknowledge and refresh your spirit. Once someone told me that their main reason for attending church services was to 'just sit', which didn't match my experience of being at a service! Once, most churches were open so people could enter to pray, meditate or whatever, throughout the day. You are fortunate to have found a convenient one that follows this tradition as many are now locked up most of the time.

 

[Mendalla]

My spirit is being fed right now. I'm sitting on a bench on a boardwalk in Pinery Provincial Park, surrounded by natural sand dunes (Pinery's most famous natural feature) and listening to the waves roll in on Lake Huron. And all only 45 minutes from home.

 

[Waterfall]

I too find peace near the water, I think many do. Sounds wonderful.

 

[One Voice]

I sometimes like to attend a Sunday morning worship service at a new church; somewhere that I'm not known and have no expectations, and where the service elements may still come as a surprise. I attended an Anglican service on Sunday. I have been to other Anglican churches, in Canada and in the UK (C of E) but not that one before. I know they use the book of common prayer and that much of the service is closely 'scripted' but it was a delight to hear the rector read from it with as much enthusiasm and conviction as he had in giving his homily. It was good surprise to hear God in a context where he often seems rigidly confined.