Where God Shows Up Part 3

 

Yesterday, you looked at the places and spaces where you have found yourself.  The soil that still rests and resides in your soul.  And I asked you to ponder: where was God, especially in moments when you felt in Exile or Sheol or a Pit?  Where was God amid the difficult experiences you named and noticed last week?  Sometimes God shows up disguised as other people.  Sometimes God shows up in ways we never anticipated.  One of the tensions is that highlights and lowlights live side-by-side without neat and tidy conclusions.  One of the tensions is that we can’t resolve everything like a balance sheet.  In Genesis 1, God/Spirit/Logos/Word surfed over the chaos in creation.  That isn’t just some ancient truth; it is a promise of God in your life every day.  God surfs over the chaos creatively trying to bring forth life.  And yet, I have free will to either listen or get caught up in focusing only on the brokenness.  This week, we are diving deep into where God was and how God was weaving threads of love into our lives.  This is never a one-and-done assignment.  Sometimes the more distance I get from a moment, the clearer I see.  Sometimes what seemed like the worst thing ever in that moment twenty years ago feels now like a blip.  Maybe you’d even forgotten about that moment until you started working on these invitations in the Morning Meditations.  Which you say, “Thanks a lot, Wes, for bringing back that memory!”  And, perhaps you are now remembering the sweetness of a moment in your 20s that also had gotten boxed up and stored in the cobwebbed corners of your life.  Keep looking at the places, people, highlights and lowlights, noticing how and where God was at work in you, through you, and I know for me, sometimes despite me!  May these moments of meditation help you glimpse the mystery of your one wild and precious life.