What Do You KNOW?

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This morning, I invite us to pay attention to what we actually know, deep down, the kind of knowing that rises when love speaks. I hold up two kinds of knowing we all live with. Our senses say, here is a book with a light brown cover. Useful, but limited. Our souls say, there is peace here, there is love here, there is purpose here. Swedenborg names the shift with clarity: “the more we draw our mind away from thoughts and urges out of our senses and body, the higher that awareness soars toward spiritual and heavenly ideals.” (Secrets of Heaven 2479) I read that and smile at the word soars. I see how doom scrolling drags us into a loop of worry. Wash, rinse, repeat. So we stop it. We look at the playlist. If it is one negative story after another, we step out. We choose the transcendent values our souls already recognize. At weddings, funerals, baptisms, I watch this awareness lift. Our thoughts find altitude. We ask simple, brave questions. What does love really know? How can I serve today? Then the day opens, and we soar.