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The Touch of God

 

This is a devotional variant to the exercises on body sensations that

you will find helpful if you have reservations about calling the body

sensation exercises true prayer or contemplation. Repeat one of the

body sensation exercises. Take some time to experience as many and as

subtle sensations as you can in various parts of your body......

 

Now make the REFLECTION: Every sensation I feel, no matter how light

and subtle is the result of a bio-chemical reaction that could not

exist except for God's Almighty Power.... FEEL God's power at work in

the production of every single sensation.... Feel HIM touching you in

each of those sensations that HE is producing.... Feel the touch of

God in different parts of your body: rough, smooth, pleasurable,

painful....

 

The experience of God need not be something sensational or out of the

ordinary, unless your devotion and Divine Love is developed. There

is, no doubt, an experience of God that is different from the

ordinary run of experiences that we are accustomed to: there is the

deep silence that I spoke of earlier, the glowing darkness, the

emptiness that brings fulfilment.

 

There are sudden, unaccountable flashes of Eternity or of the

infinite that comes to us when we least expect them, in the midst of

our work. One needs to do so little, really, to experience God. All

one needs to do is quieten oneself, become still—and become aware of

the feel of your hand. Beware of the sensations in your hand....

There you have God, living and working in you, touching you,

intensely near you.... Feel HIM.... Experience HIM. Most of the

devotees look upon an experience like this as far too pedestrian.

Surely there is more to the experience of God than just the simple

feel of the sensations of one's right hand. This needs a long

explanation to know the reality—Yet, you are assured that these

simple and humble exercises shall help you a lot to march towards

that reality.

 

We forget all too easily that one of the big lessons of incarnations

is that God is found in the ordinary also. Do you wish to see God?

Look at the fact next to you. You want to hear him? Listen to the cry

of a baby, the loud laughter of a simple party, the wind rustling in

the trees. Or just quieten yourself, become aware of the sensations

in your body, sense HIS ALMIGHTY POWER at work in you and feel how

near He is to you.