Sensory Perception

How often do you think about your senses? When you hear a beautiful song? After the first drops of rain saturate the air, filling your nose with childhood memories? As chocolate melts across your tongue?

Most of the time I don’t think about my senses. I think about what I am experiencing. But I am right now and I am grateful for them.

My eyes see the grandeur of the Andes and the destruction of Haiti.

Your ears hear thunder and whispers.

Our hands can forge a steel blade that cuts through bone and they can hold a delicate needle to stitch the wound.

Children’s tongues taste the tartness of a crisp green apple and the smooth sweet warmth of the caramel it is dipped in.

A mother’s nose can smell when the milk has gone bad even when the date has not expired and they can discover the magnolias in blossom before they walk around the corner.

God spared no expense at giving us the most amazing input devices on the planet. It is no accident that we can experience the best and worst of life with them. God wants you to experience the world, experience life, and experience him. He wants us to take everything in. Let it warm us and fill us. Let it motivate us and challenge us.

When you see something different today, don’t just let it go by. When you taste something new, don’t allow you life to be unchanged.

There are amazing and horrific and wonderful and subtle sounds, tastes, sights, textures and smells to be experienced. They are not by chance and they are not without purpose.

How will you make sense of it all today?