Within the realm of human experiences is the opportunity to experience life on multiple levels. Our physical senses alone give us the chance to taste, touch, hear, see, and smell our lives. Then there is the intuitive sense or feelings we have about our lives. We have a spiritual sense about what is happening and a mind sense that interprets the information from the physical senses. There are probably ones we do not have names for. All of these are vehicles through which to experience and make meaning out of our lives. We use the information presented to make decisions about what we want to experience going forward. We also sometimes make the information itself wrong. The reality is the information coming from our senses has no meaning except for what we place on it. A sense of smell is neither good nor bad but we have a reaction to it and determine it is one we want more or less of. There are societal and family definitions of what is a good smell and what is a bad smell. This varies depending on where, when, and within whom we grew up. Our feeling sense is the same way. A feeling of anger is neither good nor bad but we have attached a bad or wrongness to it and made it not okay. As a woman this is especially true. Yet anger is a helpful signal to know when we feel threatened. It creates a fire in us that may prompt us to make a decision. The same for sadness or even happiness. Our feelings are indications of what we are experiencing. They are not us. We are not angry, we feel angry. We are not happy, we feel happy. We run into difficulty with feelings when we identify ourselves as being them. So why is it acceptable to say, I AM ANGRY but not acceptable to say I AM FRESH when neither is the truth of who we are. God encourages us to notice our senses and use them as information, not identification. She is there to remind us that the truth of who we are is far beyond anything we could be boiled down to a smell, taste, or feeling.
Be From Senses!
on August 9, 2017My prayer for us is the willingness to look at the myriad of indications and information given to us by our senses and not rush to identify with them today.
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