As we continue to
explore Isaiah’s calling as informing our calling, here is a question: How
do you expect God to move in your life?
Yesterday, I invited you to go outside because that is where God moves
in my life. This does not need to be
true for you. Maybe you, like Isaiah,
need to be at church or in a sacred space for God’s still speaking voice to get
a word in edgewise. Maybe for you, God
tends to show up when you are with a certain family member or friend. Or God meets you when you are at a particular
coffee shop or out gardening.
Can you rewind and
review your life for where and when God tends to show up most consistently?
This can change
over time. We can go through a season
where our morning coffee meditation on the lanai no longer nourishes us. Or we go to a retreat center that we have
been to for years and the feeling just isn’t the same. But there are bread crumb clues the Holy
leaves scattered around our lives ~ like an adult Easter egg hunt. To be clear God doesn’t do this because God
wants to frustrate us or trick us…God does this because the joy is in the
discovery.
Wait you missed
that point.
The joy is in the
journey. The joy is in the aha moments. If God just texted you the five-year plan,
even as good as that sounds right now, there might be a part of us that
questions if it was really going to play out that way. The joy is in the moment-by-moment unfurling/unfolding
of our lives. In the shifts and exit
ramps and holy ways God is showing up in your life.
Wherever and
however you most consistently connect with the Divine, I encourage you to enter
that Eternal presence – with your expectations and your fumbles and questions
and hopefulness. May you find joy, a
sacred and life-giving joy, in such a moment today. Alleluia and Amen.
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