Loss of the Sacred Sense

***Loss of the Sacred Sense*** A family of four were on a holiday trip – a ten day cruise. They had a good number of bags with them – thirteen in all. As they were set to enter the ship, loading in all their stuffed baggage... ... the absent-minded husband remarked, “Oh, I wish I had also taken the white-coloured bag that was kept on our main table!” The wife, who was pretty exasperated with the large number of bags exclaimed, “What? We already have more than a dozen bags, and you wanted another one?” The man, sheepishly replied: “Well… our tickets are in that white bag!” This humorous incident reflects an important dimension of our lives: We often miss out of picking up the right priorities of life! In our spiritual journey, do we sometimes neglect in carrying the ‘white bag?’ – the bag of holiness and sacredness? Do we sometimes end up missing out “the sense of the Sacred” in our lives?