There have been a few moments like the one I had today. It was genuine, touching, surreal. I was in Walmart (of all places) and suddenly EVERYONE was beautiful. There is no attraction or lust that can match this feeling. I am rarely clear enough to host such a moment and I don't know why it happened today. I was picking up a cake and was soaring from the kindness of the bakery woman. She wasn't sugary sweet. She was just sincere and seemed like she wanted to help me, almost like she was waiting for me to ask. As I turned from her and walked through the produce, the children in grocery carts and the man in the flannel shirt and the mother rushing through with her teenage son...they all wooed me! I wanted to tell them all that I knew we were connected. I wanted to just stay and see who else walked by.
I call it a "Merton" moment (Google Thomas Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander). He says it better than I ever could. But the point is I felt it. I experienced it. It has been so long! I came home and treasured the rest of the night with my family. I watched my wife enjoy her birthday and my daughter enjoy the cake. I felt playful and real and ready. God is with us!
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