Lately, I have been so busy with my life that I haven't taken much time to reflect on what I have been doing. Today I started reading a book I found at Goodwill yesterday called Reformed Spirituality... Here are a few of the things that made me stop and think...

Q: What is your only comfort in life and death?
A: That I belong - body and soul, in life and in death- not to myself but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of His own blood has fully paid for all my sins and has completely freed me from the dominion of the devil; that he protects me so well that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, that everything must fit his purpose for my salvation. Therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me whole-heartedly willing and ready from now on to live for Him. --The Heidelberg Catechism

The heart of the experience of God is an inner knowing that "I am loved beyond comprehension, beyond my earning or deserving." This deep knowing of the soul is the shattering of the otherwise inexhaustible need for love, which drives us to keep ourselves in the very center of the universe and to evaluate everything on the basis of how much it meets our needs. The person who knows love is able to love.

The experience of the divine may be made known through other people

who show love so well that they represent the love of God for us.

(There have definitely been several people in my life over the past few years that have made God much more real for me by the way they showed His love...I want to be like that).