“Be still, and know that I am God.”—Psalm 46:10a By nature, my spirituality and the spiritual disciplines that I practice have been oriented toward a rational approach. For years, I have kept prayer lists, read sections of the Bible more or less daily (and even read through the Bible on several occasions), memorized scripture, and emphasized the practical implications of the Christian life. While involved in a Companions in Christ study several years ago, I was introduced to the categories developed by Urban T. Holmes to describe the different ways in which Christians exercise their spirituality. He suggested two scales to describe spiritual experience—the mystery/revelation scale and the mind/heart scale. Corinne Ware develops this further in her book, Discover Your Spiritual Type . Her four types are revelation/mind, revelation/heart, mystery/heart, and mystery/mind. Without a great deal of reflection, it was clear to me that I oper...
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