dailydatewithgod

Through the practice of my daily prayer and meditation date with God each morning I have noticed the awareness of the small things of life.  These seemingly inconsequential moments in which profound exchange of life and love happen.  It can be a look from a man to his daughter in the grocery line or a grandmother who helps her grandchild who ran off put her shoe back on.  These are small little events which speak to the power of love and care that we have for one another.  In a world where the media focuses on tragedy and terror it is easy to forget that the small moments of life are always present.  One might think we are all at war with each other but the small moments tell a different story.  I would not be aware of these small experiences if I did not have the practice of tuning into such moments within myself.  God shows up in the smallness of life to show us the profound nature and power of love but we have to be awake enough to see them.  It’s in the smallness of the kind driver who patiently allows me to back up again because my parallel parking skills need some work, the laughter that you hear from across the street, and the wiping of tears from the face of a friend.  God is ready to show us all the smallness of love if we want to see it but she cannot force us to breathe and pay attention.  He always has on hand multiple moments of smallness when we want to open our eyes.