dailydatewithgod

There are some people we meet that we feel connected to automatically.  There are situations we find ourselves in and we have this sense it is exactly where we are supposed to be.  These experiences are so striking to us we see them as perhaps unusual and rather profound.  What if what we are experiencing is an awareness of the linkage that our hearts have with other hearts.  Henri Nouwen used the phrase “Heart Speaks to Heart.”  The linkage we feel with others and certain experiences or even things comes from the space within our hearts.  It is a place that recognizes the sacredness of all things.  Most of the time we default to the vision provided by our eyes and so we can miss the linkage.  The profound and outstanding moments of linkage come when the power of the linkage supersedes the vision of our eyes and see more from the eyes of our hearts.  In the moments when my eyes seem to blind me to anything sacred or heart like in another person or situation, I turn to God with one simple prayer. “Help me to see with the eyes of my heart.” When I am willing to let go of the vision I am holding with my eyes alone, the linkage appears and ultimately I see the sacredness in whatever I am beholding.