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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