dailydatewithgod

We get so used to what we believe is normal that the moment something or someone stands outside of the norm we think it’s weird.  Even the word weird is used in so many contexts it has become normal.  I have often thought of coincidences and God-incidences.  Incidences where God chooses to remain anonymous.  There is also a great question we can ask ourselves when we come across something or have an experience out of sorts.  Is it odd or is it God?  Maybe some of the things we call oddities are really just things or situations where God is showing up in a way we did not expect.  I have found over my many years of daily dates with God that the one thing that stands in the way of trusting in God’s presence at all times is my expectations of God.  When I have decided knowingly or unknowingly that God would show up this way or that way and I do not experience God this way or that way, I presume God is not present.  God created me and not the other way around and I forget.  I start thinking I know how and in what specific way would be best for God to make his or her presence known.  Through that filter, the oddities whether in my own character or a situation are labeled as an anomaly, quirky, or just plain not supposed to be.  What if instead of seeing those things as oddities we embraced them as God’s presence in our character or present in our lives. Imagine how we would look upon our fellow human beings we labeled as odd if we saw their oddities as God-ities.  Okay, so it is not a word but neither in God-incidence and I have been using that one for decades 🙂