Wednesday, 10 June 2009

• A face-print on the glass.

  So I walked into a glass wall today.  Totally knew it was there too.  I was aiming for the doorway, but I had hair in my eyes, a filled 7-liter water bucket in each hand, and no caffeine in my blood-stream. Water splashed all over me, the too-clean glass, the granite floors...  But then, after I had cleaned up the huge spill, I again managed to miss the open door and nearly walked into the glass on the door's other side for the very same reasons.  The glass has always been there, and the doorway always in the same place; yet my own distractions this morning had me not really looking at it but beyond.

  I'm able to relate this to the following: I can't seem to turn on the radio lately without hearing The Fray's You Found Me, the song that is directed by the singer to God.  Near the end, the singer says "I’ve been calling/ For years and years and years and years/ And you never left me no messages/ You never sent me no letters/ You got some kind of nerve".  I always start to sing along...the song is catchy like that...but then I realize what I'm singing.  It to me screams of the world's loneliness and desperation...and though I don't want to presume I know what the writer was thinking when he wrote it, nor make assumptions as to his relationship with God...I have to ask if the words of the song are really possible?

  Because I've been raised to believe..and my life has proved...that God is always with me.  And most especially when I call out to him, he will answer.  Maybe not the way I'd like, but he does, and if I look for his answer and not what I'd like it to be, I can usually find it quite promptly. 

  "Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.  I will be found by you," declares the Lord.  Jeremiah 29:12-13, NASB

  Removing The Fray and their song completely from this now, I wonder how many times I call out to God for answer to prayer, and though he's there and has answered my request, I have too many things going on to see him.  Or even if I've made no request of him, want nothing from him but to know he's around, if I have too many other things in my mind that stand before my desire for that something better, I'll miss him.  Like the glass wall this morning, God's there, but if I'm not actively looking...

  *Not for Revelife

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