dailydatewithgod

In every moment there are these experiences of God showing up in our lives in ways we often do not perceive as God.  We have these fixed notions of what God is and if something falls outside that parameter we dismiss it as coincidence.  I often think of those coincidences as God-incidences.  Years ago when I was a teacher at a private school, once a week my students were tasked with reflecting on the past week and identifying where they experienced God-incidences.  I encouraged them to notice God-incidences as things that could show up outside of church or a “religious” figure.  They could expand their parameters to God showing up as hearing the sound of someone’s laughter, or  a song they loved; seeing a friend smile at them, or a bumper sticker on a car that made them laugh.  I invited them as God invites us to see how these everyday treasures are God’s way of reminding us we are loved and paid attention to.  Just by the fact we are aware and witness these things means they are gifts to us as well as those to whom they are happening.  I know I am warmed by seeing a loving embrace between people even if I don’t know them and I smile when I see a little child dancing in the line at the grocery store with complete abandon.