Life has a sweetness to it, and a beauty and power that I want to celebrate.” Valerie Harper
There are just times in your life when the presence of God is so real and enfolds you so completely that you realize you never want this feeling to end! Saturday as we celebrated the life of a very special young lady, I was surrounded with a feeling of what can only be described as sweetness. I felt the entire church gathering pouring out their love and care for a wonderful young lady and her family. It was evident that God’s presence was there blanketing all of us, and it was such an uplifting experience.
It is sometimes in the hardest of times that God grants us grace to count these times as the sweetest ones. We feel united in our faith in a Savior and in our heavenly home.
The thing is, you know this feeling can’t go on forever, but you don’t know how you’ll give it up. St. Augustine called the time in your life when you feel God’s presence in such a real way and the time after it leaves you as the sweetness. It’s such a sweet time that reveals a God that is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. How comforting to know that God is present everywhere, that he is all powerful and all knowing.
No matter how long the sweetness lasts, when it leaves, you won’t be the same. You might hate to see it go for now, but the result will leave an imprint on your life. You will never forget the feeling of this sweetness. The good news is that it can come again!
As I left the service, a familiar song kept repeating in my heart, and mind, Jesus loves me this I know; for the Bible tells me so; little ones to him belong; they are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus loves me; The Bible tells me so.
