First day thoughts

Today I decided not to go to church since I have a cold and don't want to spread the disease around me. I set aside some time for spiritual contemplation however. It is written regarding worship that "Worship is essentially an act of adoration, adoration of the one true God in whom we live and move and have our being. Forgetting our little selves, our petty ambitions, our puny triumphs, our foolish cares and fretful anxieties, we reach out towards the beauty and majesty of God. The religious life is not a dull, grim drive towards moral virtues, but a response to a vision of greatness." Quaker Faith and Practice 2.07 and "All true worship is inspired by God. The place of worship is the place of dependence, the place of wonder and of power, the place of fellowship and of communion… Worship links us to God and implies faith in a God who is in some sense personal. Personality is the highest category we know and we cannot worship a Being who is less than the highest of which we conceive… Thus the act of worship presupposes on our part a sense of dependence on God and the acknowledgment of our need of him, and this means that the element of adoration and thanksgiving should always be present in worship. Worship in Christian experience is our response to the God of Love." Quaker Faith and Practice 2.09. The most important thing is to set aside time for worship, whether one does it alone or together with others is of lesser significance.

"There are more important things in life than money, but I can't afford any of them" it said in a meme I shared on Facebook recently. I have been rather busy lately with worldly concerns such as getting an aquarium running and going to different events. There has been little time for contemplation. I have had the wrong priorities, I have concentrated on worldly matters when I could have concentrated on spiritual matters and this blog. There are more important things in life than money and I could have afforded them: spiritual things.  Or is it an expression of privilege that we think spiritual things are more important than money? Can we afford a spiritual life only when we have everything else? I don't have an abundance with money, but I have plenty of time and I'm rich therein. Where is spirituality in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? Who knows?