"Bwkljfduhssanfdjghuyfssf." That's another thing I say about it too.
"But if you find it and if you touch it, your world can change forever. If you touch its skin, you can feel your body changing- and your vision also!... And everything looks like a giant cupcake! And you keep laughing, and laughing, and laughing! Nothing is quite the same really. And after you finish laughing, its time to turn into a frog yourself... Do you wanna play with me?... We would be hundreds, thousands, millions. The biggest group of friends the world has ever seen. Jumping and laughing forever. It would be great, right?" 'Raconte-moi une Histoire' (m83)
(Listen to that whole song somewhere online while you read this post. Incredible.)
Words are cheap and empty without encounter. The bible isn't the truth without Jesus. That's how I know God values experiences, that's how I know he is always tangible. Thats how I know that arguments are futile and debates for the simple-minded. Without the presence of God, Heaven would just be another world. That is why I know that earth can be like Heaven now. Therefore, in light of all this, I want more. More of absolutely every encounter, experience, and supernatural thing that opens my heart to see, feel, and know God perfectly. I don't just want more, I guess; I want ALL. Why be in this crazy, eastern, mystical religion if you don't want that? I don't value blind following or choice-less devotion and neither does he.
When you stop culturing a religion, you can see it at its purest. Or, if you include every culture in a religion, you see it at its purest. But seeing a religion just through the lens of one culture will hold you back and keep you from ever having ALL of what you could have if you removed invisible boundaries. For instance, when you view Christianity as a Western, American religion, your experiences and encounters are filtered through that particular bend of thinking and experiential history. It may seem way out of the ordinary to you to meditate for hours and have wild visions of heavenly places, while someone in East Asia may find that very natural. In order to fully experience who God is, we have to remember that he is a melting pot of every culture- he has no boundaries. He is limitless. This doesn't work for every religion because christianity is the only religion with a limitless deity. All other religions have natural walls and boundaries, but we have none because God has none.
Since I have no boundaries and since there is no limit to how much I can have or how far I can go in God, my expectations have changed as well. I expect the mystical to be natural, meditation to be fruitful, the supernatural to be the new normal.
Exciting- getting to explore the depths of something infinitely good. I'm going to stop holding myself back now.
xo.
-L
