If you’re one of ’em, I hope you’ll post a comment on this blog, cuz I’m still curious.īut in the meantime, I’m going to drive around in my clean crisp car, focusing on things that are a little easier to understand, like the fact that each one of us really does carry the “aroma” of Christ. I did a little googling, and it turns out that there really are people who have smelled the Holy Spirit. I had actually forgotten the whole CBN bathroom experience until CLEAN CRISP WHITE brought it all back. Instead, he gently explained that the lavatories had recently been equipped with a silent, timed-release air freshener, and that I must have been right under the air vent when it went off.Īnd here I am, 30 years later, still not knowing what God smells like. He didn’t even chuckle – at least not at first. ![]() “In the bathroom! I was just standing there, after I’d washed my hands, and the fragrance just built. “I think I just smelled the Holy Spirit!” I gushed. Instead, I left the bathroom and nearly bumped into an older, wiser employee who (you can’t make this stuff up) just happened to be the head of building maintenance. The heady fragrance grew and, while I wouldn’t have chosen that particular eau, had I been in God’s shoes, I didn’t feel it was my place to judge. Plus, I was eager to know more about the supernatural things of God. (Where stranger things than finding the Holy Spirit in the ladies’ room had opened my mind to new ideas.) (There was no one around to make fun of me except God, and I figured he’d seen worse.)Īnd I was fresh out of college. Now, bear in mind that I was alone in the bathroom. The fragrance was just sort of…there.Īnd I had to ask. I didn’t see any air fresheners (and believe me, I checked), nor did I hear any sort of pffft pffft that might signify a mechanical dispensation. One day, I was alone in the ladies’ room – the ladies’ room! – when suddenly, out of nowhere, a sweet smell began to fill the air. I loved working alongside so many talented and media-savvy Christians – people who loved both Jesus and TV – and there were days when I felt like I could just sense God’s nearness. graduation, I’d landed a job at the Christian Broadcasting Network. But I wanted to.Īnd then sure enough, it happened. I had read verses like these, and I’d even heard that the Holy Spirit sometimes showed up with a “sweet smell,” but I’d never experienced it. In the New Testament, Christ’s love is called a “fragrant offering” (Ephesians 5:2) and Paul tells us that, as believers, we spread “the fragrance of the knowledge of him” (2 Corinthians 2:14). Perfume makers in the Old Testament crafted a special oil that was used exclusively for anointing things and making them “holy,” and the smell was both sacred and distinctive. ![]() ![]() You may know that the Bible talks about the fragrance of God. Not for the smell, mind you (the cleats might be preferable), but because it reminds me of an encounter I had with the Holy Spirit. ( Click here if you want one.)Īnd I do like it, actually. I plugged it right in, and while I am not really sure what “white” is supposed to smell like, I’d wager that if you are one of those people who hangs a cardboard pine tree from your mirror and immediately gets all ho-ho-ho inside, you’d like it. The box implied that it smelled like CLEAN CRISP WHITE. I miss those days, but not so much that I would turn down Dee’s gift. Sometimes when I crank the AC, it takes me back to those long road trips to lacrosse tournaments in places like Maryland and New Jersey, when I’d spend hours in a car with a bunch of 8th grade boys who talked about things like how to catch a rabbit with a goalie stick and hung their feet out the car windows, lest I perish. Robbie and I buy used cars (“pre-owned vehicles” for those who know to say sofa instead of couch, which is apparently an important lifestyle distinction that I had never even heard of until last week). Anyhow, I love my ride, but second-hand buyers can’t pick every feature, and I got a car that came with an intermittent smell of cleats. It’s like when someone says you have something in your teeth: Grateful trumps insulted, every time. Last week my pal Dee gave me an air freshener for my car. I might have been offended except that 1) she gave one to two other gals, too, which suggested that I wasn’t necessarily a target, and 2) I actually needed it.
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