The Absence of God--

It has been a week between blogs.  I don't like to do that but have really been busy and the blog has not been close in my brain, I guess.

What have I been doing?  Well, this week has been crazy busy with our Child Development Center sale.  I have worked with others at the church to make it happen and get the materials into good hands.  It was a huge success.  I took the next book in my reading list with me each day but never got around to reading it.  So, today I made it through half a chapter.

The book is called Beginning to Pray by Anthony Bloom.  So far, I am really enjoying it.  I am re-reading the first chapter called "The Absence of God."  God is not really absent as in not there; on the contrary, God is absent from our minds.

This all got me thinking about my "tasks at hand" this week.  I was busy, busy, busy and doing, doing, doing.  I don't think I ever stopped to thank God this week for the success of the sale.  I don't think I once praised God this week in allowing me to help teachers get materials and preschools get supplies.  Did I have to?  No, probably not, but then wasn't God really absent from my mind?

On Monday, as a last whim, I decided to post on Craigslist.  The sale was not "really" open to the public and was more by invitation only.   Basically, we really wanted the stuff to get into the hands of people who could use it, teachers.  About 2 on Monday, a lady came.  She is starting a Spanish Immersion Preschool on the Northwest side of San Antonio.  She just happened to look at Craigslist that morning.  She did not have a big vehicle so said she would come back the next day.  In the end she bought a TON of furnishings.  She bought cubbies, shelves, tables.

The more I think back on the events of the week, that was a God thing.  I didn't really want to advertise on Craigslist but for some reason I did.  I ended up posting.  I was able to help her get some really good deals and get one step closer to opening her center.  God was there, but I sure took it for granted.

That is how God moments are alot of times.  Really awesome God moments get stuck in the midst of the craziness of life.  They get lost in the other things.  Why do we take those God moments for granted?  Why do we not notice these things and praise God WHEN they happen?

There are so many times in my life that I don't realize that God is wrapping unconditional love around me.  What am I doing?  Going through the motions.... just letting life take its course.

hmm...