[pct-l] God and G-d

[Mtnned at aol.com (Mtnned@aol.com)]

Junaid,
 
Yes, as it is, complication does distract the mind from the heart and  its 
issues of great spiritual importance.  Why do you think this world  is so full 
of mental information appealing to our self-will and pride or why  there are so 
many fears and temptations?  To keep us from spiritual matters  of greater 
importance (that effect our very lives).  
 
Reality is, if you are willing to see it this way, ours in not a  battle 
against flesh and blood but against principalities and  powers of the spirit.  
 
When we hike, we leave behind the responsibilities, obligations, deadlines  
and over all hassles of daily, worldly life.  We must or we would always  have 
something "hanging over our heads" as we walk down the trail.  In  this 
absence we are less distracted and begin to hear, think, and  feel better.  We 
become healthier in body, soul, and spirit.  As  if a "weight" has been removed 
from each of us.  We feel the wind, smell  the humid pines, and let ourselves go 
in the vast space of the mountains as  if we had never been this free before. 
It is this freedom and simplicity of life  that allows our pummeled spirits to 
soar.  Though we may not have known it,  nor choose to recognize it, we find 
we do have a spirit within us and for some  we miss it when we go home.
 
Food for Thought.
 
Mtnned