We encounter God in the most profound and mundane experiences. God is present for it all, even the things for which we do not want to be present. In those moments when we would rather not be there and we show up anyway, God is able to work through us. We are not left to our own devices to figure it out. I used to think I could not attempt anything unless I knew exactly what was involved and I presumed I had to know about it before. I was so afraid of failing that I boxed myself in to a life in which I was safe or so I thought. There were elements of rebelliousness but most of those fell under ways in which I harmed myself. I would push past little fears but always with an impending sense of doom and the moment something went wrong, I figured it must be my fault. It wasn’t until I really began to walk daily on my dates with God that I became open to being present and seeing what God could do through me.
My prayer for us is the courage to show up and see how God might work through us to be the presence of love in our world today.
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