I saw the sunrise. I heard bamboo and tubular wind chimes resounding in the breeze. I felt deeply calmed, relaxed and hopeful. And I felt, like “the little flower”, that I needed to do little things with great love.
I take your point about my language being a bit provocative and colloquial. Of course God is always here, at work in us and in all creation. But in Epiphany season the lectionary readings draw our attention to moments when people’s eyes are dramatically opened to the reality of the presence and majesty of God. From the human perspective this feels like God turning up, but it is not God showing up out of nowhere - it is God revealed in a particular way to the sense experience of an individual
For me God showing up implies that God left. Perhaps God showing up in a new way sits better with me. And what do I see, hear,feel? I’d like to turn that on its head and ask, “What does God see,hear, feel?” as I work through the decision making process of finding my way forward.
I wonder how it is that you might discover what God sees, hears and feels? Is it not through your own senses (including seeing and hearing the Scriptures)?
I saw the sunrise. I heard bamboo and tubular wind chimes resounding in the breeze. I felt deeply calmed, relaxed and hopeful. And I felt, like “the little flower”, that I needed to do little things with great love.
That’s so beautiful!
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Thank you, Margaret. Your words bring to mind John Bell’s song, “Jesus calls us here to meet him”.
I love his hymns
deity wants me to do.
I like the way you put that. It leaves options open for fresh experiences of God as well as being aware of God’s abiding presence at all times.
I take your point about my language being a bit provocative and colloquial. Of course God is always here, at work in us and in all creation. But in Epiphany season the lectionary readings draw our attention to moments when people’s eyes are dramatically opened to the reality of the presence and majesty of God. From the human perspective this feels like God turning up, but it is not God showing up out of nowhere - it is God revealed in a particular way to the sense experience of an individual
For me God showing up implies that God left. Perhaps God showing up in a new way sits better with me. And what do I see, hear,feel? I’d like to turn that on its head and ask, “What does God see,hear, feel?” as I work through the decision making process of finding my way forward.
I wonder how it is that you might discover what God sees, hears and feels? Is it not through your own senses (including seeing and hearing the Scriptures)?
Absolutely. Rather than my deity showing up and my effort is to see, hear, feel what that that