Other times, we get hit right over the head with something so direct and undeniable, it takes your breath away.
Case in point:
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| from our weekly church bulletin |
Staring at me right in the face was a question that I had a hard time answering. Am I still amazed, or do I still take His grace, mercy, and power for granted? After living in a foreign country for a while, the challenges of getting through daily life become commonplace, and the work I do starts to become routine. It becomes so easy to lose sight of the fact that the work I do, the life I live, the marriage I am a part of, the relationships I've been blessed by, the food I eat, the joy I feel, the sorrow I share-- are not simple coincidences. In every facet of even the simplest life are opportunities to be amazed by how He loves. As simple as the perfect cup of coffee (although, that's not so simple where I am) or a blue sky in the middle of a cloudy week. Or as complex as a divine appointment or situations that unfold and seem to defy all scientific or logical explanation. Yet, how easily we pass over the beautiful ways that we are reminded of His unending love and vastness in favor of mundane, circumstantial explanations!
I could say that this was just a funny coincidence-- that my name happened to appear on our bulletin. Printed with such urgency and accented by an exclamation point that just seems to express a cross between excitement, frustration, and perhaps final resorts at getting my attention. Anxious to stir up the fire and wonder I once experienced when we were closer, the title simply asks if I've lost my sense of amazement.
Sure, it's just the title of a sermon.
But I'd rather not see it that way. Instead, I am dumbstruck, overwhelmed, and amazed.
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