When you hear the word spirituality we tend to think of silent meditation, holy shrines, sacred spaces. Biblical spirituality is much earthier than that. Ezekiel used images of human birth as a way of encountering the presence and action of God. As for your birth, the day you were born your navel cord was not cut; you were neither washed with water nor anointed, nor were you rubbed with salt, nor swathed in swaddling clothes. What a vivid reminder that the way to God is found not by escaping from this world but by plunging into it with all its messiness. It is the stuff of life — birth, growth, culture, marriage, divorce, sickness — that is priviledged place to find what God is doing for us.
