Seeing the World Differently

There is no authentic God experience that does not situate you in the world in a very different way. After an encounter with True Presence you see things quite differently, and it gives you freedom from your usual loyalties and low-level payoffs--the system that gave you your security, your status, your economics, and your very identity

                                                                                      Richard Rohr, Daily Blog, 3.20.16

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experience the Sacred

the world changes

is it that the skies are bluer?

the mountains higher?

does one suddenly see God

in an eagle on the wing?

perhaps

but it is more likely that things which would once devastate

lose their power

and things that were once so significant

become a matter of indifference

it is more likely that we see things we never saw before

beautiful things, yes

but also painful things

such as injustice and poverty,

or simply relate to life differently,

our relationship with wealth altered

as too our relationship with pain

oddly,

we are less comfortable with the world,

and more comfortable

we are people fully in this creation

yet also connected, profoundly

to that behind, beneath, above

all that we see

it feels as if we have one foot in heaven

and yet

in truth

we may have both feet firmly on earth

for the first time