Where is Lent going, speeding past, like dry sand through the clenched hand. Lots of life looks and feels like that - it runs away before you have the chance to grab it, and feel its grains and make sense of it all.Approaching two years (at great speed) in my current place - and the sensations flit past. The good: people, worship, smiles, prayers, encounters, growth (even, if one dare say it in such a sensitive place as church). The not-so-good: anxieties about keeping it all together, trying to share it about, trying to keep oneself together.
Where is God in all this? In the sand, as it runs through our fingers? In the funny-sparkly-light that one charge took to Oban? In the teacup and candle the other took? In the folk who are joining in with the enterprise that is developing and growing here? Maybe even in the church...
I believe the answer is: All of the above, and in all sorts of other places too.
But, a bit like a discussion with a fellow British-Legionnaire today on his becoming numb and oblivious to the beautiful highland/island scenery: I have to make sure I remember to keep on looking out...
A good analogy I think. A timely reminder (which I need to hear) that if we do not value the here and now life will pass us by so fast that at the end we will ask "was that it?".
ReplyDeleteWe are all guilty at times of allowing the grains of sand to slip away without noticing how lovely and unique each one is.
As long as the sand doesn't get in one's eyes, I think it's ok - to continue your metaphor!
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