Luke 18: 31-19:10 We have wood floors in our house. When I have not swept the floors in awhile, I can clearly see the dust collection on the second floor as I am rising up the steps and the dust comes right at my eye level for a moment, particularly in the mid morning when the sun rays are pointing straight at the dust. I can only ignore it so long before I have to get out the broom. But there are plenty of times I go up those stairs and don’t see it at all— I might be in a hurry, I might be focused on something else, it might be cloudy or dark.
There are times when something is right in front of us but we still don’t see it. How many times have you looked for those keys or that wallet that you set down somewhere different? They are sitting right there but you don’t see them. Or looked for something in the grocery store and walked right by it several times before you notice it on the shelf?
Then there could be something that is obvious to others and not to you. Continue reading “O say, can you see?”
GOD-SENSE: If you have ears to hear….
Luke 10:38-42 There are lots of reasons we don’t hear well. For some of us, it is an actual physical deterioration of our hearing that often comes with age. Or it can be the loud noises all around us—and I mean literal noise like traffic or the tv as well as emotional noise like grief or stress or fear. Or it can be our tendency to double task—trying to listen to a friend and look at the emails at the same time. We fool ourselves into thinking we can hear one thing and be doing something else. We end up doing neither very well.
This season of Lent we will be exploring together the use of our various senses in our connection to God. Continue reading “GOD-SENSE: If you have ears to hear….”
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