ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author understands the curriculum/education as a living, breathing phenomenon that cannot be reduced to a technological endeavor but is always a moral or spiritual one. Understanding education as spirit requires being present to the complex relationships within which the author am embedded in order to be alive to the awe, wonder, and process of being. The Lenten season of the Catholic church requires that we face death—through death, we embrace life. The art born as the echo of God's laughter is the art that created the fascinating imaginative realm where no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be understood. To understand education as a sacred or spiritual process in which we are called to be present to life also requires confronting death. An understanding of "spirit" as a living, breathing indeterminate process is what the Lenten season signals us to remember, and in order to do so we must confront death.
