CALM

This is such a wonderful word. And even better when you experience it. The idea of being calm no matter what is at times associated with being mature. If it is part of the definition then I know I'm personally not that mature.

I think we all have varying times of achieving calm. Some better than others. They are fleeting of course. Never intended to last.

The Lord's spirit has the power and ability to drape us with calm. It can soothe in times of pain and suffering, it can give light, but it will always help in a way that in part touches us with the sense of God's reality.

However, we approach it often only from our own needs. We want an end to pain, but we don't always want to see harps and haloes as part of the cure.

But again to find the path that reaches to the plateau beyond our own dimension of thought can be difficult. For God's garden is so foreign to many of us in terms of what really grows there.

We can smell the fragrance of his heavenly blossoms. Be enriched by the scent, but still forget who is the gardener.

Others will not even bother to remember it is God who owns the garden of sensations. They will visit and think it exists just for them.

I'm speaking of course of taking the gifts of the Holy Spirit for granted. To sit and inhale the beauty and think it is a blessing only intended for you or some kind of reward.

Some will never learn that God's love is for all, it is not a reward. However, that doesn't keep people from viewing it that way.

And then when they are caress by some aroma of calm, they thing they stirred the wind to cause the scent. Rather than accepting it is a give from God.

For we are driven by his wind, fueled by his light, never to dress a day in our own will. To wander where his spirit leads will bring those precious moments of true calm.

They are never meant to be heaven no matter how much some try to make it so. Like so many elements of spirituality we can always misread the purpose.

At the core, the calm grants us the focus to hear his voice. It affords us one more chance to listen when he touches with more opportunity to see how much we can truly touch him.

That is a calm which helps one's faith to grow. Providing, we hear what he is saying and embrace it as intended.