I wrote this post exactly 2 years ago. I reposted it, because it reminds me of another time, and moves me again.
Rejoice in simple things today.
MOMENTS IN TIME: A MORNING WALK
This morning, I took a one hour walk around our town, primarily for the sake of exercise.
As I glided along the muddy roadsides and cracking sidewalks, I
* Took in an mp3, one hour course on European history and its cultures, identities and hopes in the 19th-20th centuries,
* Walked across the rubble of a construction site of a new highway going around our town,
* Waved to 23 truck drivers, who all waved back,
* Shared morning greetings with three friends who happen to be mentally handicapped,
* Joked with the catholic priest who both cares for them, and serves with godly passion on our university board,
* Greeted the father of one of my middle daughter’s friends,
* Smiled at the town council member to whom my son delivers newspapers,
* Created a concept for a new series of songs related to the soul’s progress through a lifetime, and
* Came home to a house silent with late, summer vacation sleep.
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I’d be careful of waving at truck drivers Dan, people might talk.
It’s too late, Graeme. They already do.
Beautiful Dan! I appreciate your story-telling gift. I find myself in the midst of chaos summer mornings
trying to hold onto Jesus while the wind and the waves do their thing. I think I’m in the tri-tone season of life…and it can also be beautiful. peace, love, dove.
Awe………….the sights and sounds of LIFE! Your observations and interactions remind me that all is life; it is all the big picture. It is all “church”………no distinctives of sacred and secular……just life….oh that we all would recognize this more and more!
Justice, Spirituality, Beauty, Relationship, ..
That N.T. Wright guy is really on to something…
Reading this, I realize that I take way too much for granted. Thanks for challenging me to listen closer for the “echoes of a voice” (N.T Wright, Simply Christian) that are whispering in every moment, even on a morning run through the “rubble of a construction site”!.
Dan,
you have a way of bringing the worship-moment to life. This is a beautiful recapturing of what could just be an ‘ordinary’ moment, into something that has life, purpose and significance for you – and for those you interacted with.
Thanks for sharing, and for helping us see the beauty in the potentially mundane.
R.
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