Well, that didn't go as planned.

I had planned on blogging through lent.  ya know..  On Holy things.  on God things.  It was lent.  And then life happened..  Life as in Kidney stones and a procedure on my 40th birthday that landed me in the hospital overnight.  And then in the hospital for another 3 days.  And my husband became a single parent..  working, parenting, visiting his wife, parenting some more.  And suddently lent got lost and instead of seeking the holiness in the waiting, I waited for answers and diagnoses and medicine and drs.  Life happens.

But maybe, maybe,  that is where the holiness happens too.  Maybe it is in living our life, the ups and downs, the trials and the joys, the unexpected, the turning 40; that we become holy.

Maybe it is in the moments when God himself brings the calm in the midst of the storm that we stand amongst holineness.  Perhaps it is in the hours that friends watch your kids so your husband can sleep and then visit; where holiness presents.  It could be in the visits from friends as they distract you from the waiting on drs, the prayers from friends near and far, the snuggles with my children in a hospital bed while we talk about their day at school...  this living of our every day lives; the conversations, the stillness, the rushing, the waiting, the wondering, the phone calls and packing lunches, washing dishes and snuggling children at bedtime. Friends.....  These are the holy moments



So maybe lent wasn't lost.  And maybe we aren't waiting for the holiness of The Kingdom.  Maybe, just maybe, as we seek after Jesus, as we wait on Him, as we parent and stand along side of friends, as we support our spouse.....  maybe that is where holy happens.  And in that case, we aren't missing it at all.  And maybe that is part of the plan.  

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