Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
I find it's difficult
to go through the day to remember what God has done.
I may sense in the moment “Oh look God’s right here. How beautiful that is. Oh, that
was a great word.”
And I continue through the day and something else happens and the next task
is before me,
the next problem the next worry, the next assignment,
and if I don't stop later,
it will easily just pass by me what's happened, what God has given me.
And I find that’s what a lot of people have trouble with
when thinking of “Well, where was Jesus for me?
Sure, Jesus may be ordinary and right in my daily life but I don't see Him
and it must be something bigger. That must be why not seen Jesus today.”
And yet Jesus comes in all these small and simple ways.
And it takes the time to stop and ask to see
where was God for me today. One of the most helpful practices I’ve
found is to actually stopped at the end to the day
and ask and look back and see where was God for me today.
What was the gift of God for me today? So I ask questions like
what are my most thankful for today? What am I at least thankful for?
when was I must fully alive? And those things
spark in me “Oh, yes I remember that word.”
“Remember I was anxious about that meeting and then
how it came together.” Or that encouragement from the brother,
or as I went outside and saw the glory
of the Sun through the leaves and I stopped,
remember that moment. And then giving
thanks I realized I was God’s gift to me and not only a gift
because as John says “I am the bread of life.”
Even those very little things that is Jesus
to meet today. That is Jesus showing up
in my neighborhood, that word, that image,
that consolation those are divine gifts.
When I don't stop at the end of the day to ask,
I usually forget. They fly by.
New things come. But when I do stop
I'm reminded again how much God loves me
and where Jesus was for me that day