This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to reflect

with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Word on Fire Catholic

Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization, using

new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts

to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us. If our hearts are open,

the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about the one who

is love. The global benefactors of Word on Fire with the support of the Archdiocese of

Chicago now present Word on Fire. Peace be with you. Friends, there are odd and precious

moments in life. When we sense that behind the veil of our ordinary, sensible experience,

there's something more. We never see this dimension of reality directly or clearly.

It's usually felt or intuitive more than seen or known directly. But when we're in touch

with it, we sense that it's somehow more real, more important, more enduring than anything

in our ordinary experience. The great C.S. Lewis referenced joy, remember his book called

Surprise by Joy, by which he meant not ordinary good cheer in a psychological sense, but

rather that aching, mysterious longing sense of the more of that reality, which is just

out of reach that's seen out of the corner of the eye. The philosopher sometimes referred

to these as limit experiences or peak experiences. They take place at the limit of our ordinary

lives or peak experiences at the top of the mountain. The great poet William Blake spoke

of seeing the world in a grain of sand or heaven in a wildflower and of holding infinity in the

palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. Blake was a great poet but also a mystic and you can

hear in that language what I'm trying to reference. To see the whole world in a grain of sand,

a little tiny thing, but somehow that grain of sand speaks to you of a world. To see heaven

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