“I love how I feel when I am with you.” That expression of a realization came to me for the first time about a decade ago on a walk with a dear friend. That sentence, and the experience to which it refers, has come back to me often since then, both with individuals and when I am conscious of the presence of the Holy Spirit which I believe is at once within each of us and beyond us.
I cannot adequately describe the experience of the presence of the Holy Spirit – but perhaps I can get close enough to evoke your experience of such a spirit, however named. It is an experience of being aware;
Of being amazed;
Of accepting;
Of being assured of love within every person and of love for Life within every living thing.
It is the experience of being empowered by consciousness of the array of our choices and of an inexhaustible source of spiritual refreshment, creativity and inspiration from which we may draw.
Health permitting, the availability of this experience is our natural state.
If I do not love how I feel when I am with someone, or when I experience being with the Holy Spirit, that is for me to examine, to grow from, and to change – if I will – to find that natural state again.
