God is present. God is alive. In our daily lives we get involved in a routine that has the potential to take us out of the present. We are familiar with the action and so we do not need to think about it in order to do it. This is extremely useful. Can you imagine having to talk yourself through tying your shoe laces like you did when you first learned how as a kid? How long would it take you to get to work if you had to pay close attention to directions or your GPS system every day? The fact that we embed a pattern in our brain to handle common routine things is helpful so that we can utilize our energy for all the new things we are going to encounter in our day. The challenge is when we approach every thing in our lives as a known quantity. We are constantly growing and changing and everything is alive. Whether we see it or not, there is always something new in the familiar just by virtue of the fact that it is alive. When we lose sight of the novelty of the people we are connected to, the jobs that we perform, the way we see ourselves, or even the path we drive to work we lose out. We no longer interact with our lives in the present, We only interact from a known experience in the past. Being present where God is calls us to be awake and alive and embrace the littlest of newness. We then remember the fascination of life and the novelty of being alive. My prayer for us today is the willingness to be present to the novelties in something that we just assume will be the same today as it was yesterday. Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen
Be With Novelty!
on October 20, 2015Are you open to the novelty of being alive and present to a known element of your life today? Share in the comments.
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