Michael Jinkins, President of Louisville Theological Seminary writes in the Christian Century about formative moments for faith at an early age. He writes about Matthew 6:34 “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” It had been the text of a Sunday sermon when he was a young boy. On the way to the car after the service he asked his mother what it meant. Her response, “hummm, I guess it means that Jesus doesn’t want us to worry about the future, there’s enough for us to worry about today.” Jinkins later realized that it was from such encounters that he learned from his mother how to bridge the mundane and the theological.
All of us know much about the mundane aspects of life, from making the bed in the morning, brushing your teeth, to turning out lights when you leave a room. Yet how do we move toward seeing in the mundane an opportunity to experience grace? This Lent, I am seeking to slow down my pace a bit and be open to experiencing God’s presence as I straighten the sheets and move through the mundane parts of my life. Perhaps it is too much to expect an epiphany. But Moses was only doing the routine, the mundane stuff of life when he encountered the burning bush. At the very least I hope to sense anew in everyday activities the words of Karl Jung, “bidden or not bidden God is present.”
Fr. Showers
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