Thursday, March 10, 2016


I have not written for a few weeks and I have a confession to make. I have not written because I have not had anything clever or particularly interesting to say. I realized this morning that this was probably the point which God was trying to make to me – that most of life is not particularly clever or entertaining. Yet, in the ordinary, we can find the profound truth of a God who was and is and is to come.
Most of our lives, I suspect, are fairly routine. People looking in from the outside might be amazed and wonder at what we do – but as we do it, we rarely stop to ponder that in the eyes of God we are all pretty extraordinary. We can begin to believe that it is always other people who are the heroines and explorers. But, on our faith journey, we are all called to take our ordinariness and be gathered into the great story of God and the saints of God. We are called to shine and tell, from our everyday places, an astounding story of breathtaking wonder.

We have all heard of the tears of a clown. Sometimes relying on the quick response and fast laughter of others hides a deep sense of longing within ourselves. When our cleverness comes from a deep wisdom and our entertainment from entering fully into life and expressing the joy which we find there, it is a Godly conversation. That is what Lent is about, owning our longing for God. Not as something to be shrugged off with the bouncing of a skimming stone of self-reliance but rather, embracing our need and finding a deep satisfaction which resonates in our everyday experience,  as well as in our unexpected otherness.

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