Don't overlook the small moments when God comes to call
Hi friends,
Last week we jumped into a small moment in the book of John, when Jesus ensures the care of his mother and his beloved disciple to each other. You can find that essay here if you need some context for all that follows.
This week, I’ve written a brand new prayer/meditation for you, based on that latest instalment in the Unexpected Jesus series.
And if you’d like to catch up with the entire series, here’s a full link round-up for you. (I’ll keep updating that master list as we continue through the stories so that’s your “bookmark-it” link, if you want to have everything in one spot.)
🎧 Listen to this essay
There is an audio version of yours truly reading this prayer over on The Secret Field Notes Podcast, too. Here’s the link to listen to that and here’s an article explaining how to add this Secret Field Notes Podcast feed to your podcast app.
Because this is how God’s family works: we are given to each other, for each other.
A Prayer Inspired by a Small Moment in the Story
There are moments that seem very small, so small you might miss them: a door held open, a meal dropped off, a birthday remembered, a song lyric in the evening, a seeming aside in the midst of a gospel story. And yet those can be the moments which somehow end up telling us something big important true about ourselves or about a relationship about an institution or about a family, or even about God. It runs counter to a world accustomed to worshipping big and bombastic and demonstrative to take a moment for what is small in the story but you know better, you always have. Small can be vital, small can be life-giving. Small can be the unexpectedly important brick left in the wall, holding back the darkness and the howl. Don't overlook the small moments when God comes to call. Don't miss the asides and the glances and the sentences and the pauses that remind you, God is humming a song of very particular love to you.
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