Spiritual Growth

The way I like to think of spiritual growth is likening it to a satellite revolving around the earth. Like a satellite revolves around the earth, so do our lives revolve around God. Each revolution of the satellite provides a slightly different view of the earth, a different angle, a different perspective. So too, with our spiritual development as our prayer life and Christian action grows and deepens, and we find additional challenges requiring further purgation, we are awakened to a new and perhaps deeper understanding of and a closer union with God. The important thing is to place God at the center of our spiritual orbit.

To carry the simile a bit further, like a satellite that eventually falls to earth because of the gravitational forces between it and the earth, so too the gravity of God, the Divine gravity, hopefully draws us into union with God.