Friday, February 27, 2009
Saying "YES" to life...
Deuteronomy 30:17-21
I love routine. Each morning I get up and get myself ready for the day. After I have finished getting my self ready it is off to get baby Laedin ready for her day. Waking her up, dressing her in accord with what my wife tells me to put on her, and feeding her breakfast. It is then off to either Acorn Acres or the babysitter. Everything throughout the day is about routine. It is about doing everything like I did yesterday and the day before. At 7am the next morning it all starts over.
I love routine, but it does keep me from saying "YES" to life. To often I'm stuck in routine and I don't see the "smallness" of life. I miss the beauty of the Kingdom, because I love my routine. Life is happening all around me and yet I miss it. I teach our students that we are a part of this grand story of God and that the Kingdom is all around us...we just have to choose to see it. We have to learn to life our life with our eyes open and our hearts saying "YES" to life.
Lord, teach us to see life within our own lives...to see everything we do as apart of your Story...and say "YES".
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Last night my family read the devotional over the phone as I drove in from Abilene. I only had the part from page 3 on my computer. I missed the line, "...you are going to have to become the person who chooses it (life) when it is hidden." There is life in the practice of Lent, even if we just think we are "going through the motions." Those "motions" mirror exactly that of a gardener watering the seeds planted. Nouwen challenges us nurture the life growing under ground.
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