I am happy.
My life is so full of little wonders and when I find myself present in the goodness of all that God is doing around me, I cannot help to be anything but happy of heart.
Staying present is hard for any human...at least it's hard for this human.
I tend to leave the present for "the well known place". My mind.
I'm a cerebral little creature, who escapes to the recesses of my thoughts. I find a sort of satisfaction in analyzing, understanding, and cognitively organizing my relationships and experiences. A little anxiety is present in the midst of confusion or new data, so I sit, and I think it through until each piece of presented information is tucked away neatly, understandably, and correctly.
Reason is powerful. And it is a sort of experience in itself. To be able to understand, and to be convinced produces a type of peace and rest.
What is more powerful then reason?
Experience.
Taste, touch, smell, feel, hear... know.
Not "know" like the Greek word "gnosko"- "to mentally conceive of".
Rather, it is more powerful to "know" like the Greek word "epignosko"- "to know by experience, like a man knows his wife".
Life was meant to be touched, heard, and felt. We can be safe in our ivory towers of cognition, or we can test our reason with experience.
May we truly live today. Present in each moment, aware of how our bodies and emotions and thoughts and relationships are all interacting to produce the current experience.
And may we find ourselves happy of heart in the midst of all the wonders that God is orchestrating right in our midst.
How very phenomenological of you :-D
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ReplyDeleteMeghan! Thank you so much for your sweet comments on my blog! I am so glad to know you, and I am so glad that you are enjoying keeping your promises to Jared! Marriage is so wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI am amazed at how much I relate to every one of your posts. Honestly. I have been realizing so much lately that what we experience is often so much different than the worlds that we create in our minds. I can be convinced that something will happen in life and it can be so off.... but I only realize that when I actually step out to experience it instead of just thinking about it & imagining it.
It's so powerful to see the truth in our lives instead of what we have imagined to be true! Thank you so much for writing!