Two days ago was quite possibly one of the warmest days in winter that I've had the chance to experience in some time. So to celebrate such, I convinced a few fellow house mates to take a trip down to the river. I have been missing the closeness I had in Boone to such beautiful sites of nature, but alas the Broad River is a fair substitute.
There was a particular part on the trail that I found myself alone for a few moments. When I turned to look out across the river, the sun hit the water in a way that made everything dance. The colors were vibrant and a stillness settled across the sky. For most it wouldn't have been an incredible act of nature, but for me, one who finds such contentment and rest in those instances, it moved me. And in that moment there was a part of my being that understood the view God has from above...the fact that his entire attention is absorbed into that one place. My heart is restless for more of those moments, but my time constraints seem to lessen them.
Midway through the writing of this blog, I paused to read a chapter from Marva Dawn's "Truly the Community" she said " I want to inspire holding fast to the good in each moment. To recover a sense of delight, to appreciate the flavors or fragrances or colors of beauties that surround us at particular moments, to feel things with our inmost beings, and thereby be sensitive to God's presence in a multitude of little ways."
Perhaps we should seek to delight in goodness again...
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