Real-Time Example of Being Lucid

10/10/2025

Lucidity

I can’t get it off my mind as an example since it happened an hour or two ago, so I will reluctantly give you an example of what we all need to grow in: lucidity.

I was having a few moments of coffee and peace and conversation in the kitchen. A song came on, “Name Above All Names.” I began to sing it with a tear in my eye.

Someone in the kitchen started another, unrelated conversation, not seeing that my head was bowed when I was singing quietly.

Lucidity: conscious of God, listening for the Whisper in all things, laying bare the motives of the heart, being aware of people and hearts and lives and circumstances, at least.

As I was quietly singing—perhaps the other person unaware—the inadvertent interruption came. I looked up and raised one finger, as in, “Shh, please.”

Lucidity. I noticed the song. I looked out the window and considered the sovereignty of God and the power and love of His creation. I joined my heart to it. I accepted no interruptions. I attempted to be kind and not rude in postponing the other conversation by raising my pointer finger. As in, “One minute, please.”

I refused to listen to my own voice or consider whether my pitch or tone was good or bad. (This is a temptation humans can have sometimes, along with the stupidity of, “Oh, this is my favorite song!”) I refused any feelings of being teachy or self-righteous, or judging the other person. I tried to listen to and apply every word of the song.

Before the song was entirely over, before the trumpets took over, I knew my part in the song was over. So I asked him or her to continue the conversation that they were about to start on some manufactured item.

All of that happened while the song was still on, purifying my motives, ignoring my current physical pain as “nothing,” considering the perception of being rude, or fantasy-religious, or hyper-spiritual, and rejecting any of that as allowable, and then looking out to the sky and the trees worshiping—considering the Future when Jesus cracks the sky—and much more.

A small example, of a little bit of Lucidity.

In case it helps.

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