How does our relationship with the sacred impact our lives?

Over the last posts I talked about What is the Sacred to each of us and what is some of the language we use to describe the sacred if any.

I brought forward the thoughts that :

To call something sacred is to declare: This matters.
This is worthy of reverence, of stillness, of our full presence and attention.

That the sacred invites us to wake up—to move to attentiveness. It is less about belief, and more about attunement. It asks us:
What are you paying attention to in this moment?
Where is your reverence going?

I talked about our relationship to the sacred.

Because when we recognize something as sacred, we treat it differently. We tend it. We protect it. We listen to it.

Continuing with this review…Once we’ve glimpsed or felt the universe in something — once we’ve felt that quiet spark of aliveness or connection — what then?
What is our responsibility if any to that experience? I came up with 4 thoughts for that questions

Maybe our first responsibility is simply to remember.

Our second responsibility might be to respond with care. We Listen, we protect

our third responsibility is to embody it —
to let the experience of the sacred or the universe, shape how we move through the world.
To allow it to soften our edges, deepen our compassion

And when we are ready, perhaps the fourth responsibility is to share it

Not to explain it away or make it someone else’s, or convince someone of it
but to let our reverence be visible.

So when we ask, what is our responsibility to the experience of the sacred?
Perhaps it is this:
To remember it.
To respond with care.
To embody it.
And to share it — gently, freely, as an act of love and wonder and gratitude for the experience we’ve been given.

Today I thought I could go a little deeper still and ask the question “how does our relationship with the sacred, however we define that, impact our lives in deeper ways...for instance decision making, surrendering something to a higher power, asking for help, seeking understanding in the face of uncertainties, the things we can’t quite control?

For many of us, the sacred isn’t a separate realm. It’s something woven through our living — a thread of awareness. Sometimes that presence feels like guidance, a small nudge that says yes, this way. Other times it’s the invitation to wait, to release the need to know, to trust that something larger is still at work.

When we face decisions, the sacred may not hand us an answer it might be more about a feeling we get, an instinct to pause, to listen more deeply. To remember that wisdom often whispers, and that love doesn’t hurry. To notice which choice brings a sense of peace rather than tightness.

Or perhaps its about release and surrender… it’s the tender act of releasing our grip so that the universe can work its magic.  To allow us to feel a sense of peace in the letting go.

But I believe that being in relationship with the sacred is also about a kind of partnership. The universe meets us through who we are — through our intuition, our gifts, our passions, our questions. What draws us close, what lights us up, what feels deeply right — these may be among the sacred’s ways of speaking. Our very design — our personalities, our joys, our sensitivities — can be part of how the universe moves and creates through us trusting that our own lives are part of the unfolding conversation and that it is less about certainty and more about companionship. We are in quiet collaboration with the sacred in how things unfold.