Tasting God

I’m at Convergence this weekend – a gathering of women who have come together “to connect, encourage, and empower one another.” It’s really quite stunning – being one of 90+ women in the same room – all different, all together. Some of us know each other. Most of us do not. And it doesn’t matter. Our diversity and similarity, when combined, is more beautiful than any one of us alone. And amazingly, our own beauty, as individual women, is experienced, enhanced, and embraced; we become more beautiful. It’s holy. It’s a taste of God.

There are lots of specifics I could comment on: the generative, creative way in which the weekend itself is being shaped in real time; the incredibly powerful music; the poignant stories…But what I’m struck by most is the power I feel and see when surrounded by 90+ women. There’s something about it – women in relationship with one another - that is unsurpassed by nearly any other experience I know. There’s an energy and enthusiasm that is poignant when partnered with freely expressed sadness and grief. It’s holy. It’s a taste of God.

I think of how many contexts I experience on a daily basis that involve only a part of me, just one or two of my five senses: listening, speaking, tasting, smelling, touching. Rarely am I palpably aware of all of them at the same time – and in community with others. But when women gather, something reconnects us to our truest selves, to our senses, to our bodies, to our hearts, to each other. It’s holy. It’s a taste of God.

I’ll write more later – maybe about the women I’m with, maybe about some specific experience, maybe about how my five senses are heightened and employed, maybe even about the amazing location. But for right now, all I want to do is soak in the beauty, the power, the experience. 90+ women in the same room: It’s holy. It’s a taste of God.

I believe it’s God’s heart…made manifest, showing up, being heard as it beats on our behalf. And at least today, surrounded by 90+ women, I can believe that God’s heart is good.

Taste and see that the Lord is good. (Psalm 34:8)

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