Is belief in God simply "emotional reality?"  In a book (Unapologetic:  Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Emotional Sense), he published recently, author Francis Spufford observes that for all of its seeming intellectual conundrums (and any honest Christian will admit that there are many), Christianity remains, for many people, a way of addressing the fundamental emotional needs of human beings.  Only Christianity, he suggests, gives people an affirming way to come to grips with their questions about meaning and longing.  Why?  Because it recognizes that although we human beings are creatures who think with rationality and reason, we are also thoroughly emotional beings.  We think, we emote and, significantly, it is often in those emotions that we see the limitations of our reason.
     So did the European Romantics observe in the dawning years of the nineteenth century, so did the German theologian Frederick Schleiermacher note as the century drew to a close.  We worship reason, but we cannot escape our emotions.
     Imbedded in the Greek word often translated as spiritual or spirituality is the root logiki, denoting, among other things, reasonablness.  Spirituality is reasonable.  Spirituality is reasonable because it understands that people are rational as well as emotional beings.  It speaks to the fullness of what it means to be human.
     Hence, though some may claim that spirituality, particularly Christian spirituality, forces people beyond the boundaries of reason, it is in fact viewing reason as it ought to be viewed.  People long for the spiritual and the beyond because their reason tells them that this existence, with all its intimations of transcendence and eternity, cannot be all there is.
     We can argue about whether Christianity is the most true religion (though I have every reason to believe that it is), but we cannot dispute the necessity of spirituality in the human experience.
     Enjoy your fullness.