Peace of KISS...

In christianity, from ancient times in our worship services there was space given for the Kiss of peace. Today I want to put a play on words to that. Instead of discussing the "Kiss of peace", I want to discuss the Peace that comes from KISS. (No not the rock band lol), let me explain.
When I was in computer training class to get into the IT field, there was one professor that told us to KISS when troubleshooting pc's. Keep It Simple Stupid has been a phrase that I live by in my profession.
I remember once before I was married, being called by a lady friend of mine that I was fond of to come fix her printer. Here I am thinking I am the big computer/tech guy. I go into looking at drivers, ports, ip addresses etc... Spent like a half hour and was so distraught that I could not impress this lady with my technical prowess. Next thing I knew, this lady friend opened the printer and noticed no ink....then I thought "KISS!!!"
So many times in christianity we fail to allow the peace that comes with KISS to allow us to rest in God. Its almost as if we subconsciously say to ourselves "I really dont trust God enough to provide a way of salvation and healing for me, so I need to find all kinds of theology, dogma, rituals, etc.. in order to make me feel as though this Christianity thing is working". Now dont get me wrong, I am not subscribing to a reformist/minimalist orientation, far be it from me to just throw a "roadkill of a sacrifice of praise" upon the "alter" of my heart.

St. Saraphim of Sarov stated "The true aim of our Christian life consists in the [increasing] acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God." Thats as simple as it gets. But many times we tend to complicate this thing for one reason or another. Christ Himself said the whole of the law can be done by one simply loving ones neighbor as himself and loving God with the whole being. Simple...There's such a peace that comes from that, rather than trying to duplicate and actually live out the tenets OT Law.

Just the other day I was pondering what is meant by the term "spirituality". I was going to post my findings in this blog. I decided to take a apophatic approach to it. I spent all night working on it, editing it, rewriting sections, moving things here and there. Finally at 2am, I felt it was finished. I was ready to post. and I must say, it was good, and there may have been some ego involved with that, Lord have mercy.

I hit "post", then looked at the blog..and...nothing but a title (some of you probably saw that)....Once I got over my anger with my browser (that lasted until the morning lol) and determined not to take a hammer to my pc. I must admit maybe there was some part of me that was angry that everyone didnt get to see how great a theologian I presumed I was. I eventually realized that maybe it wasnt meant for me to post on this. So I decided to let the Lord have His way and not post on it.

I hadnt thought about this since, until a good priest friend of mine, sent me a response to my inquiry for suggestions for what true spirituality is, just a few minutes ago. His suggestion?...You got it... Keep It Simple...

Be blessed in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!!!