Good morning…
In a recent blog post, we identified five of our innermost senses, senses which partner with the power of the Holy Spirit at work within us each day. Intuition. Imagination. Perception. Will. Reason. One reader wrote: “The human brain and our DNA as God made it is more powerful than any machine. A machine only knows what you can input into it. A human brain – well it can tap into God’s immense creativity.”
“Yes,” I wrote back, “we are wired by God with immense capacity to heal, to love, to be transformed. My friend Dr. Cathy Snapp works in the neuroscience arena, and she talks about our brain firing differently when we are in a state of gratitude. When we focus our attention on the beautiful, on the lovely, on our Oneness with God, scientists can measure the brain waves lighting up, uncoupling negative thoughts, brain cells reconnecting in a state of positivity. It turns out that Paul’s intuition is scientifically correct: Be transformed by the renewing of your minds, (Romans 12:2, NIV).”
“I am thinking about these five innermost senses, and I think I would add three more internal senses ignited by the Holy Spirit,” I continued. “Our ability to ‘focus’ our attention on the positives in any given situation, God’s generous gifts given from moment to moment. Our ‘memory’ – the concept of remembering runs thick through out the Old and the New Testaments. We physically ‘re-member’ ourselves, put our God-given wholeness back together by drawing upon life-giving memories. And our capacity to be grateful. ‘Gratitude’ heightens God’s transformational process within us. We become more and more like Jesus as we are transformed by the Spirit of God alive within our souls, bit by bit, day by day.”
“I love these conversations we have,” I concluded. “Positive. Life-giving. God’s Spirit multiples simultaneously in each of our lives.”
“Sue, this could be a blog,” she replied. “What you just wrote. Beautiful!”
…Sue…
