I've had alot of interesting conversations lately.

I was talking to a man the other. Sometimes we talk alot. Other times we only have time to say hey or something or make ridiculous jokes in passing, but he is a very interesting person. It seems like the thoughts he's thinking inside his head are probably alot different than the guy next to him. He's got an interesting sense of humor, and he is strangely odd. Which is what I like about him.
I was sitting down to eat lunch with him and the topics were varied and random, you know whatever comes up. We were sitting with a couple other friends, too. Talking. Eating. Laughing.

Somehow the conversation turned toward tattoos and piercings. I guess a friend of mine next to me saw that this guy, who'll we'll call alex, wears those round 'ring' earring things that fit into a hole in your ear, and she was asking about it and telling him she was thinking about getting something like that, or something, I don't remember exactly. But still, it was interesting. Alex is very interesting to listen to when he's describing something or talking about something he loves or likes or knows alot about. I was pretty interesting and i'm not really all that interested in those things at all.

We moved into talking about piercings.
This guy Alex got his right and left eyebrows pierced, under his lip pierced, and one or two other things pierced that I don't quite remember, but he wasn't wearing them at the moment. But he smiled telling us about it.

Then he said this:
  "you know, it's interesting because for me getting those piercings was a very spiritual experience to me."

"that's awesome," I interjected.

"yeah, i tell people that and they just give me these weird looks. They're like, 'that's not in the bible,' " he says with a very proper voice, and kind of shakes his head.

" that's just ridiculous. Anything can be spiritual. it just depends how you look at," i say.

What he said about getting piercings being spiritual really amazed me. The fact that he was willing to see it like that and accept it as such made me smile, and made me excited that other people were seeing things with different eyes.
To be open to that is so fulfulling and so much more satisfying
 
Everything is spiritual.
It all depends how we look at it, how we see things, you know?
mowing the lawn is spiritual.
listening to music, riding a bike, sitting in silence, getting tattoos, writing poetry, singing, showering, loving, walking, eating food, having a conversation--whatever. Anything and everything is spiritual. Let's stop the madness of dividing our lives into 'spiritual' or not, and start embracing the fullness of life in all of life. Let's start embracing the meaninfulness of life, and all of it, in all we do. That's what can make every moment meaningful, from gardening to shopping, to serving, to reading our bibles, or reading the booklet from our favorite album.
this will end the guilt, and the madness. Discover God in the moments of every day, in all you say and do. Embrace the fullness. I want to end the limiting, the boxing in, the stereotyping, the judgement, the emptiness, the labels that blind us from really seeing, or limit us from really experiencing, the walls that suffocate, and start embracing the whole of life, the holistic spirituality that challenges and breathes and motivates and captivates.

Hope you'll join me.
Going through alot. What a journey.