If you don't have direct experience, or recognize it, do you, can you, still know God? Of course. This direct experience requires an open heart and an open mind. Be aware of what is going on around you. (Big mantra of mine - just ask my kids.) In seeing God in this world, you need to look and listen and feel and touch. That direct experience could be a hug from a friend, a smile from a stranger, or a Facebook poke when you need it. I see God in all of these things.
Through your direct experience, you to can be that direct experience for someone else, this is my own sort of 'pay it forward'. We can all take lessons from the School of Kindness in Puget Sound, now an online course teaching random acts of kindness; first do something kind to yourself, second do something kind for someone you love, then for a neighbor, then for a stranger (taken from an article in the Seattle Times).
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I think we need to hear things like this more often. We are so often looking for the major earth shattering miracles, that we fail to see the smaller, everyday ones; the small things that others do for us, and we do for them. Further, I think that we forget that all those good deeds come from God. It is God that inspires us to go out and do good in the world.
ReplyDeleteWould you experience God more if I commented here or reached up and hug you since your sitting right in front of me? This is not a joke.
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