backdate June: Tasting God

Last night, we had a meal that went way beyond mere food. Normally, you bite a food, it has a taste, you chew and swallow. This food, first you smell it. Then you bite it, then you taste first one flavor, then another, then sometimes another, and even after you swallow sometimes another. And it is often made of combinations of things that, by themselves, really aren’t all that good. This was not just eating: it was a holistic experience of all the senses: sight, touch, taste, smell, and even (to a lesser degree) sound.

This was more than just eating- it was an experience.

That is how I want our time with God to be. Not just a meal we bite, taste, chew and swallow, where the goal is to get the food from the plate to the belly as quickly as possible. I want our time with God to be an experience, one to be savored, one to be lingered over, one that goes beyond whatever we are doing and helps us truly experience the holy ‘other’ that is God.

Spirituality should be more than just getting it down, it should be a life changing, multi-sensory experience. Because when you are on the river, the journey is the destination, and enjoying the river- God- is the point.