A friend told me a story this week. She said that she saw a couple planning to marry on a morning talk show. When they were pulling together childhood pictures for the obligatory slide show for the rehearsal dinner, the bride noticed something quite unexpected. There in the background of her posing at Disney World stood her now groom to be. The man with whom she would spend the rest of her life stood feet away from her long before she had the emotional, sociological, or developmental capacity to understand who and what he would be to her. How amazing. I can't help but relate this to our spiritual lives. How often do we find ourselves unable to recognize how our Great God is meeting us. He meets us in the ordinary. He meets us in the extraordinary. Every place that we don't expect him to be, he is there.
Please don't read that I consider her husband to be her savior, but instead see her unawareness of his presence. May we pause and confess our inabilities to recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit in situations that feel mundane and secular. May we learn to see the kingdom come!
Soundtrack: Been there before, Hanson
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