From Me to You

Experience is made fundamentally personal by reason, by the ability to intelligently interpret and rationalize. Even the most common of experiences: day, night, up, down, etc; are perceived and processed by the individual. The pseudo-science of psychology studies these differences in perception, but I am unaware of any findings that are absolute. We may all agree on the color red, but that does not account for what red means to you or what it means to me. Commonality is the wondrous cohesiveness by which we are able to communicate with one another, and when we stop to consider the infinite possibilities of perception it truly is a miracle that we ever make sense to anyone other than ourselves. Sacred literature—Scripture—is the testament to the human experience of God—the transcendant higher power—which is both universal and intimate. I experience God personally, and because of that I (and others who experience) am left to translate that experience in such a way that others might recognize that same experience for themselves. This is what it means to be human: to experience, to reason, to share the process that is common to us all.