In
anticipation of moving, I have been left feeling nostalgic. The sheer
anticipation of moving in two days is making me look back on every moment and
want to press “replay!” It does
not help that my room is empty, and all of my boxes are packed. It probably did not help that I went to
print out pictures and looked back over the past three months. That’s when it all hit. Pictures
with friends, graduation, San Francisco, Montreat, and ordination came popping
up making my heart hurt. Each picture was such an amazing moment that I
still carry with me, but can never be replicated. None of those people
will be in the exact same place again.......and it made me want to smile at the
image captured, but also cry that things are changing.
Here are some of the moments...
Graduation and leaving amazing friends!
During this time on the cusp of
change, I have been reminded there is something holy about
the daily tasks of our lives.
Holiness happens not when we are planning the major events of our
lives. We experience God
unknowingly most of the time in the moments that we do not capture. In the customary tasks we often take
for granted until they are suddenly gone.
Stopping by on an impulse to chat
with a friend and then staying for the next two hours. Holding a baby. Sitting on the floor to read books with
a toddler. Weekly walks and
runs. Classes each day. Instinctively picking up the phone to
recount the details of your day.
I did not
realize how precious many of these habitual activities meant to me, how they
fed my spirituality until I was suddenly faced with change. Sure, I will create my own new routine
that will soon be second-nature, but this move has allowed me the gift of
seeing what I often cannot see in my own routine-driven world: it is the small
things that make the difference. We meet God when we least expect it: when we are rushing
around doing daily routine or our marking off our to-do lists only to be
confronted with a burning bush.
So
today I miss the routine, the average days that I had at seminary and this
summer. Because it is in the
average that we experience Emmanuel: God
with us, not just on the exceptional days but always.
Very nice! We look forward to following along as your ministry journey continues.
ReplyDeletewohoo! Anna's in the blogging world! So excited to follow this :)
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