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The presence of the holy
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Wednesday, June, 30, 2010
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by John Fischer
Often I will scoop up a good sentence or paragraph from one of our readers and file it away in my "Future Devos" file to come back to at another time. Sometimes they have lost their context, but that doesn't matter if the quote is good enough. Such is the case with a comment from Jodi in Idaho: "I feel closer to God when I just go to work each day, live life, and accept everyone with God's love."
What I don't know is what she was comparing this to. She feels closer to God when she is doing these things than what? Well I'm not sure it matters, but it was probably being compared to more assumed spiritual things like going to church, or reading the Bible, or praying, or singing worship songs, or hiking in the woods, or counseling someone, or attending a Christian retreat or seminar. In other words, Jodi feels closer to God doing normal, everyday, average things rather than anything overtly spiritual.
Now I like the fact that Jodi has given us a little window on the sacredness of ordinary life, and we would do well to fill in our own version of ordinary things and train ourselves to see and appreciate the presence of the holy.
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