~by Susi Pittman

In the rush-rush, push-push of today’s world, a sense of the sacred can be blocked out by the droning of talking heads, our busy lives and financial obligations. Yet, we seek it without knowing even in the midst of all the distractions.

We were first created with spiritual form, as God knew us before we were formed in the womb. It is that part of us that lies underneath all the material, worldly and secular distractions. It is that part of us that seeks the sacred moment, one that our soul truly yearns for as it seeks to unite with the One who created it and to experience that moment of contact.

In recent research of Near Death Experiences (NDE), many of the people who return from the other side, say it is a place that they immediately felt was HOME. A place that they knew they had come from and had finally returned to. And that their life on earth indeed was an alien place…a place of journey, but not an end. This in an extraordinary way is an experience in the sacred. There was a sense of renewal in mind, body, spirit and mission for those who returned.

Yet, this type of sacred encounter is available to each and every one of us every day! And we don’t have to die and come back to experience it.

It truly rests in our sincere desire and ability to step out of our day to day activities. To seek solitude and quiet, if but for a few moments, where we can enter into prayer with the help of the Holy Spirit and converse with the “still small voice.”

Why make heaven wait? Why waste another day without a personal commitment to quiet prayer time. It is there – you have to make it important enough in your heart to find it – and it will be there. And once you have found it, and sensed the sacred, you will live to seek it every day.

This would be a blessed and beautiful week to begin your journey!

Susi Pittman is founder of CatholicStewardsofCreation.com and Owner-President of Twin Oaks Publishing; she is author of Animals in Heaven? Catholics Want to Know!; an advocate for the Florida Catholic Conference; a member of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Council of Women in Jacksonville, Florida; an Associate of the Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Augustine;a member of the Florida Publishers Association, Independent Book Publishers Association, the National Association of Professional Women, the ASPCA, the Humane Society of the United States and the National Audubon society.