Thank you so much for taking the time to share with me about your Interrupt journey. The comments and emails today and yesterday were interesting… it seems like none of our journey’s are alike yet God is doing something very united in each of us.
The other day I had a moment where I began to understand a very important aspect of the Interrupt journey.
Recognition.
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I hesitate to share this next story but here it goes…
The other day I was driving around. I was in my own little world filled with my own little thoughts. And then, out of the corner of my eye I saw her. She was standing on the corner, holding a sign that read, “Please help.” [stay with me… this story isn’t going where you might think it is]
I started fumbling through my purse trying to find a few spare dollars to give her. But I had nothing.
I felt something inside me say, “But, what do you have?”
A bottle of water.
And so I pulled up next to her. I hesitated to roll my window down because I really didn’t want to “just” give her this bottle of water. It seemed so lame.
But I waved for her to come towards my car. She did and smiled. I handed her the bottle,
“I’m so sorry, but this is all I have.”
She shrugged her shoulders and said, “That’s ok. I’ll take it. Thank you.”
I’m not trying to virtually high-five myself for giving this woman a bottle of water.
God used this woman’s words to interrupt me.
I think the mundane, boring, stuff of life is lame. I want to run from it. Because what I see in those moments of life seems worthless… not enough.
The truth is, I don’t “take it” and try to see God in those moments. I fight it. I complain about it. I resist it. Because I see those moments as useless.
What we see is what we look for.
And so, I’m challenged to recognize the moments where God is trying to interrupt me. I want to take whatever the days give me because each moment big or small is from Him.
Psalm 139:16 says, “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Recognition.
