{"id":4236,"date":"2012-04-30T18:49:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2012-04-30T19:07:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:07:58","slug":"altered-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayables\/2012\/04\/altered-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Altered Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“Help me to see the divine wisdom buried in my memories.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Once, in second grade, a friend and I were horsing around on a set of parallel bars in the school yard. I did one of those maneuvers where you pull yourself up so the bar is resting bellow your belly and then you tilt forward and spin fast.<\/p>\n

When my feet smacked the dirt and I was dangling right side up again, the entire world seemed like a new and different place. The school building was far away and not altogether real. I was me, but I was also not me. I was an altered me. I could see everything from a great distance but I was not afraid as I believe I would have been if it had been the usual me. I was both smaller and bigger than I understood and these were the facts.<\/p>\n

This strange perspective passed quickly, everything sort of settled back into its proper proportion, but I never forgot the sensation. I\u2019ve reflected on it hundreds of times and have come to think of it as a fleeting whisper of God.<\/p>\n

~ Corinna Nicolaou<\/em><\/p>\n

Question Worth Pondering: How many small moments in each of our pasts hint at the great expansiveness?<\/em><\/p>\n

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