Gut feeling. Some people call it discernment. Instinct, intuition, sixth sense, even the Holy Spirit. Whatever. It is a sensation of knowing that you just can't put your finger on. It happens somewhere between your head and your heart. It may last for a fleeting split second, but the revelation it leaves is unmistakable and I have learned, worth heeding. Sometimes the message is, "this is it", or "bad idea". Sometimes I have gotten it in regards to the nature of a person as one to trust or not. Sometimes the sensation is so strong that it can't be ignored and forces action. After years of experiencing it and both heeding it and ignoring it (with the consequences) I have learned to listen too it. The other thing about the gut feeling is that it has never been wrong.
I have had it strike throughout my life on a number of occasions. These are just a few...
When the tornado hit our farmhouse in Indiana. (something was really wrong but I wasn't old enough to understand what)
When my father left. (I knew he wasn't coming back, I think I was five years old)
When I walked forward at an altar call in a baptist church. (I knew my life was about to change-fifteen)
When I met my husband. (yep, gonna marry him)
Jumping on a soccer field with my future husband. (the knowledge that we would parter in ministry)
Moving from L. A. to Alberta Canada (the right thing to do with our newborn son)
The idea to start a little thing called avisualplanet.com
O.K. you probably get the idea without me listing every event in my life in which I have experienced this. I simply know that I have this sensation that I call a gut feeling. And now this feeling has appeared again in regards to which college Daniel should go to. (The voice of my gut actually uses the words "will go" not should, but we just wont say that out loud).
It's MICA.
I can't explain it. It is not pragmatic, rational or sane in the worldly sense (usually the nature of the gut feeling). But I know I can't wait to see how this all unfolds.
Anyway, we visit the school on friday.
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