Red Letters/Black Letters: Day 85: Between Heaven and Earth

"If I have told you of earthly things and you do not believe, 

how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?" John 3:12

Let's pretend there are two realities. The first reality is the reality of physicality. It consists of the things you touch and smell and taste and hear and see. It consists of you. Let's call this reality earthly. The second reality is the reality of the spirit. It consists of intuitions and feelings and things just out of eyesight and just out of the range of our ears. It consists of things that can't be felt with our hands or tasted with our mouths. Yet, this reality still consists of you. Let's call this reality heavenly.

Almost every single person to ever live would agree that the first reality exists. I think therefore I am. Everything else exists because I recognize that it does. A great many people also believe in this second reality, most of those people, though, would say that it is a reality that cannot be understood in the time of breathing. We can't pin down this heavenly reality as easily as we can the earthly one.

But there is a much smaller group of people who contend that both of these realities are open to our understanding in the here and now if we but open ourselves up to it. Jesus was one of these people. Jesus teaches that the earthly reality in fact points to the heavenly one, we must only have 'eyes to see, ears to hear.' Or we can be like Nicodemus, unable to understand the heavenly because we are unable to understand the earthly.

Look around.

Listen.

Reach out.

Taste.

Smell.

The other side is within your grasp if you can understand the world around you and the world within you.

+ How do you understand reality? Is what you can physically sense all that there is? Or is there more to life, more to the moment, more to reality?

+ Think on any times when you have felt something behind things. What was happening the the earthly reality that pointed to the heavenly one?