When you are reading Thomas Merton (New Seeds of Contemplation) on the nature of Reality-how Reality itself evangelizes for God, how alignment with, and questing towards what is Real is one way into the Life of God, and therefore ourselves—we shed our false selves by coming towards Reality, and necessarily encounter Christ and His Cross, The Light illuminates what is not real in us (sort of an ontological argument for the existence of God-if you want to know what’s Real bad enough, you find God (similar to Francis Shaeffer’s argument from what is Real, but more mystical i think.) how, we are meant to come into alignment with a true image of how things actually are etcetera; and just then, your dog poops all over your bedroom floor twice…that fragrance was also real!
 Finding God through cleaning up dog poop is great spiritual practice-that switch from knowledge to incarnational, “embodied sanctification” as Dallas Willard would call it, knowing! How to know Jesus in rush hour traffic! True discipleship that! I feel wiser both for having read Merton this morning on the nature of Reality, and cleaning up dog poop today! Perhaps, i am getting somewhere. No poop photos to follow. Nor photos of Reality itself, though i’ll work on that one…