I want more of these experiences
I am so grateful I am at a loss for words. I prayed and I asked for a sign and I believe I got one.
I never knew but it seems I’m not the only one to notice beautiful scents out of nowhere.
It actually happened to me the first time a few years ago. I was standing in a field full of sheep and I’d just come out of the barn where we had taken some who had some difficulty lambing. I’d been cleaning the barn out and as I shut the door I suddenly smelled flowers, like a beautiful light perfume. I had no idea where the smell was coming from so I just stood there for a moment puzzled.
Today, after I prayed for a sign that I was understanding my experiences well, and going down the right path, not deceiving myself etc… I went outside to get the mail and when I came back in I found that I kept smelling this unfamiliar warm cosy smell like fresh linen. If warmth had a smell this was it . It was so unfamiliar I actually put my air freshener on and sprayed my favourite house perfume around before I thought to myself ‘what if that is a sign?’ I don’t even know what made me think that, but I did.
I looked it up and it has a name, the odour of sanctity.
I have autism so the unfamiliar smell, even though pleasant, did make me feel uneasy. But only as if I were at a strangers house, (and that’s very much my mental health and anxiety and sensory sensitivities causing that issue.)
It is why I sprayed the house with a familiar scent.
There’s nothing in my house that can explain the smell, no visitors and no laundry , no new soaps or cleaners. I tend not to vary too much with stuff like that if I can help it.
This probably seems like I’m making something out of a very common or easily explainable experience - and I respect that view.
But I cannot help myself. I feel answered.
I feel a presence I didn’t before.
I believe, and I want to continue to believe and to have faith. And I want to believe and to have faith with my whole heart and entire being.
I want to have no doubt left in me.
I never knew but it seems I’m not the only one to notice beautiful scents out of nowhere.
It actually happened to me the first time a few years ago. I was standing in a field full of sheep and I’d just come out of the barn where we had taken some who had some difficulty lambing. I’d been cleaning the barn out and as I shut the door I suddenly smelled flowers, like a beautiful light perfume. I had no idea where the smell was coming from so I just stood there for a moment puzzled.
Today, after I prayed for a sign that I was understanding my experiences well, and going down the right path, not deceiving myself etc… I went outside to get the mail and when I came back in I found that I kept smelling this unfamiliar warm cosy smell like fresh linen. If warmth had a smell this was it . It was so unfamiliar I actually put my air freshener on and sprayed my favourite house perfume around before I thought to myself ‘what if that is a sign?’ I don’t even know what made me think that, but I did.
I looked it up and it has a name, the odour of sanctity.
I have autism so the unfamiliar smell, even though pleasant, did make me feel uneasy. But only as if I were at a strangers house, (and that’s very much my mental health and anxiety and sensory sensitivities causing that issue.)
It is why I sprayed the house with a familiar scent.
There’s nothing in my house that can explain the smell, no visitors and no laundry , no new soaps or cleaners. I tend not to vary too much with stuff like that if I can help it.
This probably seems like I’m making something out of a very common or easily explainable experience - and I respect that view.
But I cannot help myself. I feel answered.
I feel a presence I didn’t before.
I believe, and I want to continue to believe and to have faith. And I want to believe and to have faith with my whole heart and entire being.
I want to have no doubt left in me.
