If we were to seek the key to the authenticity of the spiritual journey, that key would perhaps be depth, writes Jean-Marie Howe (23). She goes on to discuss our inability to grasp such thoughts, because we do not understand depth of life. We understand product. We can grasp goals. But depths leave us a bit bewildered.
Howe believes this is because depths involve spiritual being, a concept we do not often consider. Being is the silent building of ourselves, our consciousness, our motives. To work with being means to understand silence, meditation, Lectio and stillness. Becoming can be likened to working with art, it needs brush strokes that are carefully placed and in sync with what else is on the canvas. Becoming is like fashioning something out of soft clay, or following the music heard in the mind even before it is put on paper. Spiritual being involes creating, transforming, listening and surrendering, all done without diminishing ourselves.
To participate in the journey toward depth and spiritual being, we have but to return to our heart (24). For our heart is the treasure hidden in the field. It is hidden because it is not immediately obvious. It is a treasure because it contains all that we need to become.
Return to your heart. Find your treasure. And you will have the key to authenticity on your spiritual journey.
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