Dear Friends in Christ -
I'm on a retreat led by Esther de Waal, a Welsh lay woman who has raised four boys and written many books on prayer and personal faith. She's been talking a lot today about noticing things, living of life in which we really see things rather than just flying from one thing to another, full of busyness and distraction. She talks of this as receiving an invitation directly from God - and taking God up on it.
I don't know about you, but my days can be so busy and my head so full of this thing and the other that I don't even notice the houses and trees I'm driving by, the sound of the leaves skittering across the pavement.
In my retreat room, there was a little scrap of paper on the desk when I arrived; it had writing on it. It took me a minute to notice it, but it was clearly God's invitation to me on this retreat and in the days to come. May you sense God's invitation to you in it, too.
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle." - Thich Nhat Hanh
Blessings,
Janet+
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