Article June 28, 1982 Issue

Nurturing and sharing spiritual insights

HELEN McKEE SENGEBUSH

When an inspiration of Truth lights up your thought, how do you hang on to it? Well, one way is not to talk about yet. To ensure lasting benefits from our spiritual discoveries, it is helpful to let the truths we discover develop and spiritualize our experience. Then our lives will be enriched, and what we do say will ring true because it has stood the test of proof.

A number of things can happen when you share an idea before making it your own. First, you may get a cool reception to your outpouring or, at best, a civil but unenthusiastic response. The individual may say, "I noticed that too" or "Oh, that's a beautiful idea." In either case, you realize he or she has not really seen what you saw. Second, in your premature effort to share, you may lose your own inspiration. Sometimes the truth is completely aborted for you, and you don't go back and work with it. Thus the need for patience and wisdom.

In our Christian experience there will be those with whom we can legitimately share our spiritual discoveries. When we wait for God's direction, we will know where and when we can share our deep revelations, or whether they are best left cradled reverently in consciousness. His angel messages are always direct and tailor-made for the individual and the occasion.

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