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March 30, 2005

Between reason and imagination

Julie Leibrich lives in New Zealand. She is an author of children’s books, a poet and a psychologist. This is how she describes spirituality:

Spirituality is the space between reason and imagination. Space where time is in different perspective, where things happen which I could not have predicted. Space where I feel loved, where I feel at peace, where I discover things. It’s the place where I meet myself. It is where I find a sense of connection - with my self and with something beyond my self – a spirit greater than myself. And sometime, very occasionally, with another person, who is standing in their space.

I think I experienced this sense of connection when Debbie, my nurse, gave me the note on Monday to tell me ‘I was going to be alright. I just hold on to Jesus’. She was standing in her space – a space between reason and imagination. In that space Jesus does more than save, he comforts and sustains those who are hurting and suffering. How or why doesn’t matter. Maybe it is bad theology. But certainly by connecting with Debbie’s spirituality, I felt loved, at peace. It was healing happening.