Is there a difference? Yes, there is.

Religion is a compartment, a label, a framework

for dealing with God. Religion seems more

external – something to use for show and to label.

A way to box us in. Why is it we feel a need for labels?

Spirituality, on the other hand, is within

an individual – often to be discovered in the

mundane, the everyday. It might be discovered

in a beautiful sunrise, the perfect petal of a flower,

or the song of a bird. It might be found in a thought,

a feeling, a word, or in poetry. It might be found in

the face of a child, their touch, or the spark that ignites

the fire of imagination. It might be discovered

in a scent that floods the soul with memories.

The miracle of God’s grace –

found in many ways and in many places –

yet uniquely our own.

from June 6, 2010