Numinous

I realize that other people surely know most of the words I post here that are new to me. Well, here's another: numinous—"having a spiritual or religious quality; suggestive of a presence of divinity". I could have used this word when I wrote about an experience after my father's death in the middle of a December. I had just come home from his funeral, where I'd told the story of his saving a lizard someone had callously thrown in the trash. I went upstairs to assuage my grief by holding the pillow on which he'd died. I had placed it in a bag in the guest bedroom closet. Upon opening the closet, there was a lizard on the pillow. I urgently called for my husband, who came and we stood in awe, just absorbing the moment. A numinous moment.