The spiritual life between fear and faith

 

Owing to its immaterial nature, spiritual sustenance can be found anywhere.
It is something we could conjure up by the power of our faith. It doesn't need a fertile soil, water, care and sunshine to come forth.
We can evoke spirituality in us, whether we are treading a hostile or a welcoming land, whether we are fed or famished, whether we are well-clothed or dressed in tatters.
The spiritual connects us with powers that are invisible to us, powers that our limited senses can't see, feel or hear.
Our senses are directed outwards away from us, towards the material life that have a solid, tangible body, a color, a shape and a smell.
Spiritual "senses" can see without looking, hear without listening and smell without sniffing.
A spiritual life relies principally on instructions or pointers that come in the form of hunches, gut feelings or sometimes direct instructions to perform certains actions.
Faith is the main component of the spiritual life, fear is the main component of the material life.
When our life is ruled by fear instead of faith, we run around, flail about, trying to control every aspect of our life and we think we can.
At the end, we miserably fail, as our body and our mind surrender to exhaustion and the gwaning feeling of impotence in the face of the leviathan forces of life leaves us with a bitter aftertaste.
Faith lets go and surrenders to the flow of life, fear wants to control.