God Sighting

I was reading today what a God Sighting is and how they help us.

It is a part of an idea of taking time to see God and how He is working. But it is also more than that. It is a time to share those things as a family. Most of the time God Sightings point us to remembering who God is and what He is doing (and always has done for that matter!!!).

Today’s God Sighting happened when I went to McDonald’s to sell an old phone I had to a nice lady from Craigslist.

It was a wonderful time because her husband came and we talked about the phone and conducted our business. As we talked we learned about each other a bit and it was great because God showed himself again.

We found out we were Christians and they shared some about their life and I shared some about my story and what was going on with us:

1. How we were waiting on God to show us the next step of our faith walk.
2. How we were doing what HE asked us to do - prepare.
3. How there might be an opportunity for us this week and how we were excited to see if this is what God has in store for us.

As I shared my story, we spoke about it a bit and then they asked to pray for us. Really. Total strangers met through Craigslist. God, you are amazing. The prayer was said like someone who had known me for years. God was moving in that time, right then. He was present. He knew exactly what we needed.

Even more, God didn’t have to supply that God Sighting. He just gave it as a bonus. God did what HE expects us to do. Give our best. Go the extra mile.

Time and time again, God has gone the extra mile during this faith walk with us.

What an awesome God we serve!

Audrey's Birthday!

Today is my five year olds birthday!!

She had an awesome birthday! She talked to family. She opened gifts. We took her training wheels off. We went to her favorite restaurant.

Turning five is a big deal. It is a moment of significance. I would not go quite as far as to call it a rite of passage. It IS a time to remember. A time to celebrate a milestone.

Today was a day of liturgies. No, of course not in the normal way the word liturgy is used. But instead a liturgy of family. All families have their liturgies. For some it involves a Sunday morning and the comic section. I remember as a kid the Saturday morning liturgy. T

That was when good cartoons were on and the best ones were on starting at 6 am! You had to get up early to see the best. So get up early my brother and I did. We would get up and creep to the living room. We would get our bowls and our sugar cereal and turn on the TV. Superfriends! Amazing Spiderman! Fat Albert! School House Rock! The Grape Ape Show! Captain Caveman! And of course the “violent” Bugs Bunny Show.

It was a ritual. A liturgy. It had meaning in the life of the family. Today was one of THOSE days. My opinion? She will never forget today.

Those are great days!

Be Prepared

There is a difference between being prepared and the action word prepare.

One is a state of being. To constantly be that state. So, be prepared is a state of “be.” It means to always, constantly ready yourself and to be ready for whatever that current and next thing is. I have thought a lot about this as we received that word from God. It was a feeling, a thought, a goal that seemed to be coming from God. Prepare.

The action word prepare is slightly different. It is to do things which make you “be.”

In April when I first felt that we should prepare it was an easy idea to accomplish. So we started doing things that would make us prepared for whatever God has for us. It reminded me of a parable.

Two farmers were needing rain or their crops could not be planted and they would have no food for the year. So both went to their houses and prayed. They asked God to send rain for their fields. After they had prayed, one farmer went out to the fields and began to tend them and make them ready. The other farmer sat and waited.

The question that goes with this parable is this: Which farmer had faith?

The first farmer expected the rain and got ready. He prepared. There was something to actually do. Sometimes, it needs to be acknowledged, there is nothing to do. Sometimes, God wants us to do nothing and that is how He asks us to prepare. And that can be really hard for some.

The month of May was a “go and prepare” month. There was so much to do. Which I am very good at. However, this month, while having a few things left to prepare for, mostly it has so far been one of not doing. Rather it has become a state. A being. Be Prepared.

It is hard to exist in the “not doing.” So now I have this time to finish up the small things and be with my family. What a great time!