PAY ATTENTION
I seem to see it everywhere, like you do, as I read today, when you are eight months pregnant and you so all these other women who are too---or you've just ordered a Prius and they are everywhere on the roads all of a sudden.
Everybody, everything I read, every sermon I hear, as I did tonight here at Junaluska, seems to be saying "duh, Susan, FOCUS ... PAY ATTENTION." Bishop said in his sermon at the celebration of the Heartland districts superintendents a few weeks ago---CONCENTRATE...What I am reading and thinking about so much these days, is saying PAY ATTENTION---God is already in this new world and new day-----preveniently God is already where we have not yet been---and before we yet know it. God is already doing far more than we can ever ask or imagine. PAY ATTENTION, clergy...PAY ATTENTION churches--there are young adults everywhere who need a safe person with whom to ask the tough questions and a person who has something, and Someone, to offer. PAY ATTENTION--God is giving us opporunities wherever we are to offer Christ. There are those close to us whose life intersect daily with ours whom God may want us to pay attention to, so that we can become what God intends us to be...PAY ATTENTION---someone whom you already know and love may be saying something to you you have not yet heard, or may be asking you to become more human and real so that God can get through to you. (Everytime I have written "you" I of course mean "me" too) Tonight the host bishop here preached, and as illustration of being focused he asked us why we, who say we have open hearts, open minds, open doors, don't seem to really want to be open to the Holy Spirit sometimes. Interesting.