samedi, mai 07, 2005

Keeping Company with God

Early this week while commuting to Ladner (about an hour or so from where we are staying) I had a moment of spiritual simplicity. I was thinking about my beautiful wife and two wonderful boys and how much I missed them-I have been with them everyday for the last eight months but now am working 8-13 hours a day away from "home"- and how much I loved them. I was laughing to myself over Zach’s vernacular-he has many funny lines in his toddler language. When he wants to be held he will run up to me and say, “Daddy hold you”. As I reflected on this the ache in my heart became tears in my eyes as I lifted my hands and said, “Daddy hold you”. At that moment I knew that coming to my heavenly Father is as simple as saying, “Daddy hold you”.
This week has been a week of simple spirituality. I have felt an ease in my heart as I have packed lumber and cement and generally worked long hard hours. In the midst of the mundane this week I have just been “hanging-out” with God. Clement of Alexandria said, “prayer is keeping company with God”. My day’s have become prayers; filled with work and conversation with God-“keeping company with God”. As I have worked I have been talking to God and He has been talking to me-through clouds, airplanes, other folks, the mouth of babes and through the still small voice in the quiet places of my soul. Tonight it was through a book and K.D. Lang’s C.D. Hymns of the Forty-Ninth Parallel.
Tonight as I reflected on this past week I have realized that it has been a week celebrating the fact that I can “keep company” with a God who has chosen to make Himself known. Tim Stafford in his book, Knowing the Face of God, say’s, “The God of the Bible…has no antipathy to flesh and blood; from first to last he has made himself earthly, material and historical. Heathen gods might be confused with impersonal natural forces, but Yahweh showed a human face; he spoke a known language. The God of Abraham…got involved…with the most mundane aspects of their [Israelites] lives. Human beings did not leave the earth to encounter God in spirit. Yahweh appeared on earth”. Again I find I can only rejoice in God’s amazing grace in coming to us. I can only mouth the words, “Daddy hold you” because God has chosen to come near.
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