dailydatewithgod

There is an experience we have all had on some level where we feel ourselves connected to something much greater than ourselves but we can’t seem to hold on to it.  For those who have had such experiences often called spiritual or enlightenment experiences it can be beautiful and wondrous.  None of them catapult us out of reality entirely unless they happen just before we breather our last breath.  But those people are no longer physically present and able to tell us how it may or may not have continued after that breath ended.  We presume it must have gone on forever, but we do not know.  Some people believe this is all non-sense and though they may not know the rational reason why we have those moments, clearly we could come up with something more practical that a God-thing to explain it.  It matters little to me how someone defines it.  I am more interested in how these experience of surpassing the reality we rely on day in and day out alters our perception of the day-to-day experience.  I have not, nor many spiritual people I have met or read about figured a way to completely sustain this other worldly experience.  It is though it surpasses our reality and launches us into a different dimension but then we still wake up in a body with feelings and a head full of thoughts that lack awe, kindness, peace, or joy.  Is the surpassing experience meant to hold us or simply shift our thinking so we can approach the day-to-day with greater peace, joy, and awe?  Perhaps it is not about obtaining or maintaining the experiencing but learning from it.  How does the feeling of being comforted and loved by someone or something greater than me make it a little easier to smile at the person on the train at rush hour who is standing closer to me than I would prefer?  How will getting a glimpse of a space where only peace and awe exist make it more likely for me to remember to breathe before I respond to the person by whom I am irritated? I know from my daily dates when I have shared with God in a surpassing experience, I am able to see and deal with the rest of my day from a lighter and gentler frame of mind.  Maybe that is what it is all about.