In the midst of Ordinary

I have been trying to work on my next Legalism post but alas life has taken the energy right now.

A good friend has needed to leave "home" and find safety for the time being. Walking that road beside someone in need has taken all my energy.

Hence, wonderful snippets are the "energy bars" that have provided soul food.

The one who prays faithfully moves to the stage of prayer..from knowing to loving. Like human lovers, the centre of the relationship between the one who prays and the Lord gradually moves from the head to the heart. Praying becomes much more "affective" and much less "reflective".

One sure mark of genuine spiritual growth, I think, is a growing preference for the ordinary days of our life with God. We gradually begin to realize that it is when nothing seems to be happening that the most improtant things are really taking place. They clay is molded into a thing of beauty quietly and imperceptibly and our "work" at this time - we who now become the clay in the hands of the divine Potter - is really to learn to "do nothing gracefully", perhaps the hardest and most demanding thing we ever learn to do.

When the Well Runs Dry - Thomas H Green

And in the midst of change, angst for those in pain, I still find myself, like Moses, saying "show me Your glory". Last night the rain pounded on my patio but in the quiet stillness this morning find the Shalom Giver. And rather like Elijah, I have found He wasn't in the wind, nor an earthquak, nor a fire, but this morning at the birth of a new day, He whispers gently in the stillness of the morning. And I find the words that Anj has spoken are in the whispering:

All is well with my soul

In the ordinary is the learning of being and letting my Divine Cartographer map out the next steps of living. Even that miracle of knowing He does, He will, He is - that is extraordinary. And in that I see God's glory!