Thursday, January 29, 2026
To be washed clean in an instant, to live that sustain – what rapture! You have definitely experienced the Kingdom of Heaven. When you’re enraptured. I often “find” myself lost in writing, organ playing, or nature meandering. Some of the best of it, wonderment, was when conducting choirs.
“God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the Lord amid the sounding of trumpets” (Psalm 47:5) Ryan has ascended amid writing, Ryan amid the sounding of choirs. Jim has gone up amid gardening and pruning, Jim amid the smells and wonderment of nature enveloping him. Martin has ascended amid words of a frenzied speech, emboldened by passion and love, Martin amid the sounding of a voice from the deep.
Whether it be a good laugh, or a cry; a Sudoku puzzle; a Beethoven Sonata; materializing a baked good; or lost in a good book – you have gone up amid the enrapturing, focused activity. In those moments, the mind isn’t thinking. The body is fully engaged in the glory of the micro-moment. I experience this more and more. The glimpses of heaven become sustainable. All I yearn for is this unbroken lostness.
Could you simply throw yourself away like that? When does this glimpsing peak pique your interest? When you are dancing and you’ve let yourself “go.” Welcome to heaven. These short trips in and out of the head and into the depths show us that our problems and thoughts aren’t real. They foul the purity that sustains focused doing. Mental chatter interrupts the flow of enrapturing glimpses of Truth.
Do you trust yourself to maneuver life without narration? Never thinking about another bill, a relationship, money, the future, or anything to do with “me” and “my life.”
Clearheaded lostness. What kind of “fool” lives this way?
Jesus. The Buddha. Yoda. The wise ones who go up amid shouts of joy, lost in wonder. Welcome to heaven. Stay a while.