Sunday, August 09, 2020
Sunday Reflection: Small Pleasures
I got kinda crabby yesterday.
For some reason-- a bad one-- I began to catalogue all of the things that haven't happened for the past several months because of the pandemic. Like many people, I realized that there has been a real loss, including what we think of as the grand moments: graduations, parades, fireworks, big trips.
But then I stopped.
Because, in with that loss, there have been small, deep moments. Things that sometimes glance off me that I have taken a moment to catch instead.
Certainly, Jesus's life had grand moments: the events around his birth and death, the preaching to thousands, overturning the moneychanger's tables, etc.
But much of that life-- and many of the most important parts-- were not grand.
He talked to a woman at a well. We know more about that than about any other conversation he had.
Telling stories to his friends.
Sitting by the side of a lake, making breakfast.
Going off on a walk by himself.
Visiting old friends for a meal.
It's a good example. And one that leads us to a better place right now.
