Half the day is gone Jesus but a thought won't leave me.  

   Okay a while back, just after moving here, I remember the night where I asked if I could smell You. It made You laugh but here's what. Since that night I have had two specific times where I know I smelled Your presence. I know that will sound most bizarre to whoever might read this but...  it's real. I believe it was linked to meeting someone and touching them, once a hug and once a handshake, but after a significant amount of time, when I smelled that scent,  it was not them I instantly thought about ... it was You. It was one of those powerful and almost too overwhelming to comprehend moments when I realized it was You, because what basis do I have for that? So for my mind to wrap itself around that left me reeling. I have missed meeting You (with my senses) I really have. 
   Another moment caught me off guard when I was talking to Shauna. I was recalling Brother Lawrence and the fact that You would literally show him a future situation You were sending him into so that he would confidently do it with absolutely no worry... that linked also with Daniel and how the progression of Your relationship led him to actually meeting You, hearing You and being touched by You. So in awe I was saying whoa why can't we be like that?  I think about that now and wonder how do I forget what You do for me? With me?  How about when we love others with Your love and perhaps in not being able to comprehend it logically we don't realize just how miraculous it is... how close the supernatural is... The smell experience also reminds me of how You are really there in others. Huh.  
excerpt from journal entry... Nov 8/11