Last night a group of relative strangers gathered together to hear from God, not in a corporate sense but as individuals. Would God show up? Well the answer was yes and He spoke in such different ways. We all gathered together to spend a night; creative journalling. A strange gathering expecting to hear God intimately among strangers .....even more strangely we did.
We looked at Scripture and began to respond in the heart, not in the head, an interesting phenomena. This was not to be teaching or learning; it was experiencing God through His word. Moving on we had to choose a secular magazine out of a pile and then had an expectation that God would speak. He spoke through pictures, text phrases, advertisements and individual words. We gathered, tore or cut out pages or sections of the magazines to display the message we felt God had for us: totally individual, personal, and living. We finally wrote a simple cinquain (5 line) poem about what God was saying. Using colouring pencils and paint we made a presentation. This was an outstanding evening, first of many more, I hope.
God gave me the gift of Himself. All He asked of me was that I give Him time and took Him out of the box of my expectations. You see I like to have expectations about what will be, could be, and should be. When I step beyond that and allow God to be God - well interesting things happen! A God bigger than my understanding emerges and it is wonderful.
Don't be afraid to see God where you least expect him. Take the time.
"I took the road less travelled and it made all the difference" - Robert Frost
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