Our offering this week is a joint effort: Writer and speaker Rebecca Hastings published an article entitled “5 Guaranteed Ways to Find God in the Everyday”. We’ll share her five suggestions, with our own take on each:
Stop and say thank you: Say it for the many feel-good, affirming, edifying parts of life. But also, have the trust and courage to say it in struggle, suffering, and darkness too, knowing that it’s all God’s guidance, grace, and opportunity.
Worship: Everything is one in God, so wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, give God glory and reverence, with voice and body if the Spirit moves you, or simply in your quiet interior self. Bring the attitude of eucharist everywhere.
Rest: Be still. Surrender every thought to God, with no need to attach to anything. Take the posture of Mary and “let it be done” to you. Purposely. Deliberately. Consent for Christ to be born in you.
Be outside. The first revelation of God was nature itself, or as St. Paul put it, “Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made” (Rom 1:20). See what nature has to teach you.
Be nice: Fr. Richard Rohr says that “we live ourselves into a new way of thinking.” Small acts of kindness, even when you don’t “feel like it,” can open the floodgates for Divine Love.
Find Rebecca Hastings’ original article at https://rebeccahastings.net/5-guaranteed-ways-to-find-god-in-the-everyday/