Do you ever just have a moment? It might happen in slow
motion or it might just give you reason to be still. It happens anywhere. It
grips you. It makes breathing a little more of a task.
It’s that moment after the laughing dies down but before
someone speaks again. It’s that second you drive around the corner and can only
see the summer-flavored trees so beautifully poised. It’s that time where you
share a joke through eye contact in a crowded room.
It’s looking up at the night sky and hoping for stars but
what you get is stars upon stars.
It’s this moment: our boss is sitting on the steps and a few
people kneel down around him. I expect to hear someone start a prayer but
suddenly hear one from my own lips, but it is covered by twenty some other
voices as the summer staff crowds around. It’s one prayer and I am overwhelmed
by the sound.
Those moments that could be ordinary and passed over but are
suddenly set ablaze with something bigger.
I think we’re given those moments by the Lord so that we
remember we’re alive. Whole poems are written about this stuff, whole books!
It’s real and it’s not just water for thirsty souls it’s every food you love
for every piece of your heart. (For me I imagine a brick-oven pizza, beer, and
a whole pile of pancakes).
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