Experiencing God

Last updated on: May 14, 2010 at 4:02 pm by Coleman Glenn

Experiencing God 2010-05-14T16:02:28-07:00 Coleman Glenn

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Just read a great article by Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit Priest, over at Huffington Post about experiencing God in moments of exaltation and clarity. These are the two kinds of experiences that have been strongest in leading me to belief in the the Lord. I particularly like the quote from W.H. Auden:

One fine summer night in June 1933 I was sitting on a lawn after dinner with three colleagues, two women and one man. We liked each other well enough but we were certainly not intimate friends, nor had we any one of us a sexual interest in another. Incidentally, we had not drunk any alcohol. We were talking casually about everyday matters when, quite suddenly and unexpectedly, something happened. I felt myself invaded by a power which, though I consented to it, was irresistible and certainly not mine. For the first time in my life I knew exactly–because thanks to the power, I was doing it–what it means to love one’s neighbor as oneself….My personal feelings toward them were unchanged–they were still colleagues, not intimate friends–but I felt their existence as themselves to be of infinite value and rejoiced in it.

It’s worth reading the whole article.

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