In between conversation, I looked out the window into the night. We were driving through the small foothills and I could make out their shadowy outlines against the night sky. The stars were hidden behind rain clouds dropping a steady drizzle on the valley. My mind was so full I just wanted to be on one of those hilltops. I imagined sitting in the rain for a while, feeling the wet soak into my clothes, into my hair, to know how absorption really worked.
Closing my eyes I asked silently, “Lord, give me a mind that can absorb all You have shared with me, because right now I feel like things are already falling out of my brain container.” In time I could hear I had asked the wrong question. It wasn’t my brain He wanted me to absorb with, it was my heart.