When it comes to living our faith and understanding spirituality, we can very easily be viewing it from a two-dimensional perspective: God and me. While in a sense, this is true, it is not complete. Our deep rooted Christian faith, our personal spirituality, can never be complete without the third dimension of the rest of creation - nature. Perhaps, even to say that the often forgotten third dimension of 'the other' is people, is incomplete. It is not just people that make up the rest of everything; there is the environment, nature, that actually makes up the 'rest of everything'. In short, there is God, nature and me. That's the complete inclusive reality.
Faith is not just to see Jesus, it is to see with the eyes of Jesus. (Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei 18)So, there is Jesus, myself and that what I'm invited to see with Jesus' eyes.
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