Many people have had an experience of suddenly standing in the presence of God and being unable to escape; a feeling one’s heart on fire; of a joy so deep joys fade; of inner peace and ultimate certainty. These experiences can be very different. They can overpower a person, or they can arise so gently in one's heart that one almost misses them. Anyone can have them in one form or another. They happen when one wills only to do God's will and nothing more.
Those who have had such experiences will be able to believe that at some point there will come an hour for which everything passed will have been only a prelude and anticipation call them the hour of ultimate and open encounter with God - the hour in which we finally know and are fully known. There we shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise.
Gerhard Lohfink, Is This All There is? P. 142-143
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