The Sacramental Life

We are now moving into the final section of our "Devotional Classics" study. Here are the dates and author's:
November 17th: G.K. Chesterton: A Magical Universe
November 24th: Athanasius: Jesus Christ, the Image of God
December 1rst: Annie Dillard: To See Clearly
December 8th: Soren Kierkegaard: Praying to Will One Thing
December 15th: Dag Hammarskjold: To Say Yes
December 22nd: Kathleen Norris: Finding Faith in the Mundane
December 28th: WE WILL NOT MEET THIS MORNING
January 5th: Brother Lawrence: An Habitual Sense of God's Presence
I realize that we are in the season of travel, Thanksgiving and Christmas. However, keep the focus and center in God, in Christ, in the true Spirit that enables us to live an "incarnational life." The "sacraments" of the church (Baptist's call them ordinances), point to the spiritual meaning of physical sacraments/ordinances. As Foster and Smith note, "In living incarnationally (embodying our spirituality) we participate in the physical sacraments of the Church and live as God's people on earth, thus eliminating any material/spiritual dichotomy." (pg. 331)
Dr. Fitzgerald