5.19.23 - Acts 17:23
When you quit searching for distractions, what do you experience? What's a way to make that space safer and more frequent?
For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship…
I wonder if Paul were to walk around my home what he would see I worship, what unknown gods sit upon my altars. My phone? My shopping cart? My snacks? My work? My plants?
Paul continues to remind us that God, creator of all things, wants us to draw nearer to Them.
My work brings me great joy and uses my God given giftings. My plants help me think of growth and creation.
When I am connected I am fully present, aware of my life, my body, my heart. I move slower and I smile more.
My phone on the other hand pulls me away and my shopping cart distracts me.
The disconnected me is rushed, quick to lose patience, and not aware of others. I fret and frown.
To borrow Paul’s language, disconnected me is ignorant of my life and my blessings.
What's one simple thing you might do today to draw closer to God?
-- Jeanette Rojas