You Carry the Fragrance

As I walked this morning, I smelled a fresh fragrance.  It reminded me of fabric softener, or dryer sheets, so I figured it was coming from a dryer vent in some house along my route whose occupant was doing early morning laundry.  But when I continued to catch whiffs of the same fragrance several blocks away, I realized that the smell was probably coming from my hat.  I keep my “walking hat” in a cabinet in the laundry room where it most likely absorbed the fragrance of the fabric softener stored there.

Holy Spirit spoke to me just then, “You carry the fragrance”.

I go lots of places, some warm and fragrant like the House of Prayer, some sad and dark like the concentration camp we visited on the Italy Prayer Journey in early June, 2015.  But I cannot rely on the fragrance of the atmosphere I am entering – I have to bring the fragrance of the Holy Spirit with me.

When you walk into a room,

You bring the light;

You carry my presence;

You bring the fragrance of me.

Know in your heart

You have changed forever

Each place you have entered

With my lingering fragrance.