I have been working with "The 3 Colors of Spirituality" for about two weeks now. I have discovered my native style to be Rational, leaning toward Sensory. I have just begun exploring the Sensory style in the "28 days of discipline," and was asked to share thoughts in this venue after re-reading the chapter on the Sensory style. Here are two of my thoughts:
I find it really significant that this style emphasizes how grounded we are, that God speaks to us and works through us in our grounded, bodily reality. Though my native style is Rational, I have to say that I truly discover the will of God for my life not as an "answer" that comes during times of meditation, prayer, or study, but in the day to day reality of living out my life prayerfully. My own call to ministry came as a slowly forming conviction that took shape over time, through day to day living--it was a call from the divine that came if you will from below. The emphasis on spirituality from below, discovering God and God discovering us in the midst of Creation, right in the middle of our physical, lived-out lives, is important.
Jack's emphasis on Jesus' humanity is also right and necessary, if not sufficient unto itself. As I understand it, historical, orthodox Christian doctrine does not present Jesus simply as "divine." Nicea emphasized Jesus' divine nature; over the centuries people found that a "divine" being couldn't save them, as they (we) are mortal. In response to this very real problem, Chalcedon revealed Jesus as having both divine and human natures; he was/is not only fully divine, but also, equally, fully human. Our faith lives and moves between these two "poles" of Jesus' divinity and humanity. Some of us emphasize one, others, the other. As long as we are situated somewhere between the two poles and don't cling to one or the other, we have an understanding of Jesus' nature that will draw us to deeper faith.