Religion...

I have just finished the book, Where God was Born by Bruce Feiler. In the last few pages, Feiler quotes Rabbi Saks saying, "Religion is sustained reflections on humanities place in nature...it fuses people to one another and to God." Being a pastor, I guess I thought that I reflected on God often. Since beginning this blog back in January, I've realized how little time I regularly spent seeing God reflected in the world around me. Overly touching things, extraordinarily poignant God moments were obvious to me - but just a casual awareness of God's work in the world around me was missed. Knowing that I had a blog to write about how I see God each day forced me to kick it up a notch - and I am thankful! God is overflowing in the world around us - reaching out in the flowers that bloom up, kissing our cheeks in the drops of rain that won't seem to quit falling lately, smiling out at us through the strangers we encounter each day. I pray that I will always be keenly aware of God at work in the world around me.

Today, may each of see the face of God in the world around us!