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Just read a great article<\/a> by Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit Priest, over at Huffington Post about experiencing God in moments of exaltation and clarity. \u00a0These are the two kinds of experiences that have been strongest in leading me to belief in the the Lord. \u00a0I particularly like the quote from W.H. Auden:<\/p>\n

One fine summer night in June 1933 I was sitting on a lawn after dinner with three colleagues, two women and one man. We liked each other well enough but we were certainly not intimate friends, nor had we any one of us a sexual interest in another. Incidentally, we had not drunk any alcohol. We were talking casually about everyday matters when, quite suddenly and unexpectedly, something happened. I felt myself invaded by a power which, though I consented to it, was irresistible and certainly not mine. For the first time in my life I knew exactly\u2013because thanks to the power, I was doing it\u2013what it means to love one\u2019s neighbor as oneself\u2026.My personal feelings toward them were unchanged\u2013they were still colleagues, not intimate friends\u2013but I felt their existence as themselves to be of infinite value and rejoiced in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s worth reading the whole article.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just read a great article by Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit Priest, over at Huffington Post about experiencing God in moments of exaltation and clarity. \u00a0These are the two kinds of experiences that have been strongest in leading me to belief in the the Lord. \u00a0I particularly like the quote from W.H. Auden: One fine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[102,107,162],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-inspiration","tag-james-martin","tag-proving-god"],"yoast_head":"\nExperiencing God<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just read a great article by Rev. 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