Today, I have had a profound sense of my senses.

We recently moved to Monroe, LA. Along with this, my body and all of its senses have remembered the vast geographical location of Monroe (or more accurately, specific places within Monroe that I have been) and have begun to create new associations with my surroundings.

I awoke early startled and thinking, "Where am I?" We moved our bed to better suit the space last night, so my body noticed the sun peaking through the blinds this morning. It alerted me that to my left was something it had not remembered being there when I previously awake. I was worried as to where I was, almost in the sense that I thought I had been abducted and made to sleep in a foreign place.

My body also noticed the smell of West Monroe the other day. It had rained, so the paper mill emitted a foul smell, which I associate with a bad broccoli smell. I knew before we moved here that I would remember it from when I would drive through West Monroe to get to Pecanland Mall.

I looked up directions for the DMV yesterday to go change my driver's license. I mentally remembered the location as being just past where I previously went to get to the airport.

My nearly 11th month old daughter has even experience these similar body relocations! I simply find it amazing how God has wired our bodies to sense differences within our physical world, even to the slightest degree. Sophie's room is almost the same size, set up the same way, and curtains blocked out the same. However, her body knows, as well as mine and Missy's, that we are elsewhere.