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klsiegel320Point to Ponder: It's all for him.
Verse to Remember: For everything comes from God alone. Everything lives by his power, and everything is for his glory. --Romans 11:36 (LB)
Question to Consider: Where in my daily routine can I become more aware of God's glory?
Very Celtic chapter, this. Very Celtic idea, too - that absolutely everything can be done in awareness of the Divine within and around it and us. The Celts had prayers for building the fire in the morning and banking it at night; for carrying water; for doing the laundry; for milking the cows.
They had this attitude even before they encountered Christianity, and when they accepted Christianity, they practiced it in the same way they had always practiced their religion - in the day-to-day activities that made up their lives.
I think perhaps where I can become more aware is when I'm doing things I don't necessarily enjoy, like when I'm stuck in traffic or grinding away at something deadly dull at work. It's easy to feel the presence of God in singing, in cooking, in cuddling my cats or my husband. It's much harder when I'm sitting here coaching a silly-ass consultant through something a seven-year-old could learn from reading the directions...
Yet even there, God is. Even there, I have the opportunity to be patient and kind, and to be aware that this person who is making me crazy is also a child of God, and no doubt has a right to be here, no less than the trees and the stars.
But it does get difficult, sometimes.
Verse to Remember: For everything comes from God alone. Everything lives by his power, and everything is for his glory. --Romans 11:36 (LB)
Question to Consider: Where in my daily routine can I become more aware of God's glory?
Very Celtic chapter, this. Very Celtic idea, too - that absolutely everything can be done in awareness of the Divine within and around it and us. The Celts had prayers for building the fire in the morning and banking it at night; for carrying water; for doing the laundry; for milking the cows.
They had this attitude even before they encountered Christianity, and when they accepted Christianity, they practiced it in the same way they had always practiced their religion - in the day-to-day activities that made up their lives.
I think perhaps where I can become more aware is when I'm doing things I don't necessarily enjoy, like when I'm stuck in traffic or grinding away at something deadly dull at work. It's easy to feel the presence of God in singing, in cooking, in cuddling my cats or my husband. It's much harder when I'm sitting here coaching a silly-ass consultant through something a seven-year-old could learn from reading the directions...
Yet even there, God is. Even there, I have the opportunity to be patient and kind, and to be aware that this person who is making me crazy is also a child of God, and no doubt has a right to be here, no less than the trees and the stars.
But it does get difficult, sometimes.
