Spirituality. It's a term used freely these days to describe a variety of practices that turn people away from a purely materialistic view of life. I hear the term everywhere. People are longing for more than what everyday human existence can offer.
I think of the quest for spirituality as a yearning to know and feel the love of God, the no-strings-attached kind of love that doesn't exist in even the best human relationships. And spiritual thinking provides a feeling of constant connectedness, an unshakable knowledge that all is well, that you are never alone, that you are standing on solid ground.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God." Science and Health, p. 209. A glimpse of the spiritual essence of life feeds the hungry heart and satisfies it. It lingers and lasts in human consciousness.
