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written by Dries Lombaard

This is a time where a lot of people are seriously into “sensing”. You hear and read a lot about “sensing and feeling”. Spirituality comes to the forefront as a lot more sensing than thinking. I am learning to sense. To use my senses. To “come to my senses”. To be sensible.

Most of all, we need to get a sense of life. We need to learn to read the signs of the times – which is a lot more sensing than anything else. It is something that is caught, more than taught.

I had the privilege to have many guests share my home in the past couple of years. Many of them foreigners – mainly from the USA. All of them became friends… some very close friends.

I just had a great time of fun and laughter, learning and discussion, chilling out and being serious, with two new friends from the States. They taught me a lot about Christ, His church, community, the Bible, people etc. But most of all, the sensibility of having fun – always. I had so much fun woven through the work we did, that the work was also more fun than ever.

They taught me to sense things in a very new and different way.

One sense that they have more than most other guests that I have received, is a sense of humour. They can laugh! They love to make fun. To create it. To sustain it. They have a sense of the importance of laughing, playing, having fun, chilling out, hanging, just being.

Religion made us “serious”. Spirituality makes us “deep”. Maybe a good dose of regular humour is exactly what we need to become human again.

I sensed a lot of their spirituality and wisdom more through their sense of humour than I did through a sense of seriousness.

I am sensing something new. Something beautiful. Something that you must sense, before you will see it.

I think I sense freedom of another kind.

Thanks Frankie V and “Joey” R. You’re good fellas. “This is what I was talkin about all this time.”