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Things are happening.  Things I don't quite understand.  Things unseen.  Spiritual things perhaps.

It's difficult defining matters of the spirit and matters of the heart.

Neither allow us to validate them with a definitive absolute because we cannot prove or see them.

We will attend a wedding celebration tomorrow.  Love will show up and be evident in the lives of two people because we see things in them that equal love.  Love, I've been told, is not selfish or proud, it looks out for the other, it puts the other first, it allows freedom to be and to become, it gives without wanting anything in return, it isn't proud or puffed up, it gets happy about truth, it's patient and kind and not easily angered, it doesn't keep a list of wrongs, it protects and trusts and hopes and perseveres.

That's quite a bit of stuff for love to be.  Wow, looks like I fail at loving for the most part. But there is always another day to work on love, to allow it in and take up space in my being instead of negative and unwholesome things.

And spiritual matters have also taken place in some form.  Son had some form of spiritual experience while driving back to Winnipeg, right there in his vehicle....just him and.....Spirit!?  Whatever it was, it seemed like something profound, something unseen...but had an effect on his life.  Strange.  Amazing.  Weird.  Unexplainable.

Events like that happen...and have happened throughout history.  The Bible talks about several of them and as I was preparing to think through the Worship Service for February 19, which I have the responsibility of leading, I found out it was going to be Transfiguration Sunday.  Now, I don't know much about Transfiguration Sunday, but I do recall that story of Jesus taking Peter, James and John high up onto the mountain.  While there, Jesus started glowing...brightly.  Not too sure what that was all about and in the middle of this phenomenon, Moses and Elijah showed up.  Those two had been dead for centuries.  And they had this conversation going on.  Peter, James and John freaked out.  They started talking crazy like...and in the midst of their feeling like they were going off the deep end, they asked Jesus if they could build some shelters for  Jesus and the two "old fellows".  Guess they figured they had to do something!  This story was recorded and told and retold and retold again.  I sometimes wonder about these amazingly weird stories that we hear about in the Bible....but really, are they any different from the ones some of us experience too?  Really odd.  Really weird.  Really amazing.  Really....???????  Matt talked about his weird experience.  I wasn't there, but he talked about it on his blog how this experience in the car really happened.  He became more alive, more joyful, more......well, just more.  No different than believing the story in the Bible that was recorded.  It was a reliable source as was Matt's story.

So, ya, love and spirit events.  One can certainly intertwine with the other and enhance the other in so many ways.  I think I could talk a lot about this topic but I'm tired after a busy work day.  Suffice it to say, I shall speak more on it as the days pass.

Valentine's Day is approaching, after all!