Sometimes it is easy to fall into the trap that things need to be just right for us to “feel God”. That conditions should fall within certain parameters for us to “connect with God”, or even more for our prayers to be better heard.
The truth I think is somewhere between, and much more grey of an area. I do think that at historic Christian sites there is a feeling of God’s presence, or at least the love of and from God to and from those that came before in these places.
When climb on the shoulders, and into the arms of the early church fathers, the mothers, the doctors of the church. The church has blessed us with such fruits of labor. Labor created by God, and His love. We are able to learn so much from our brothers and sisters.
We need to open our hearts, lower our eyes, elevate our minds. We cannot impact God’s love, we can only change how we can partake in it. A heart open to God’s love is more likely to grow in its capacity to hold His love. Eyes cast down in submission, in reverence, are more likely to behold the hem of His garment passing near us. Minds lifted to God, are more likely to ascend the ladder through humility.
Thusly we can feel God more and more, when we become more and more aware of Him. Through prayer, contemplation, and love. Let’s raise one another that we can all become the saints that God so fervently desires for us to be.
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