Day Twenty-Six

It’s been a privilege to write these reflections while taking WellSprings’ Listening to Our Lives Springboard, meeting weekly with a small group for spiritual growth – about a dozen members of our congregation – to talk about the timeless themes that faith communities have wrestled with for thousands and thousands of years. 

It’s fitting that last night, we were talking about God – what that word means for us, how it completely repels some, how for others it is the core and source of our days, and how for many it provokes every other feeling in between. 

Many people get hung up on the noun “God,” and how to define it. But last night, one of the questions we asked together was, “what if God is more like a verb?” What if those places where we see God, or recognize the holy – at the bedside of a sick friend, through the power of the rainstorm, in the sounds of a baby’s coo – are what matters more? What if the constant presence and availability of those holy moments is what we can trust, and have our faith in? 

In today’s song, Audrey Assad sings: “Your worries will never love you. They’ll leave you all alone. But your God will not forsake you.”

We all have the power to decide who God is to us. So who is your God? Don’t worry, I’m not asking you to choose from a menu of options – I’m asking you to reflect, for today’s practice, on what kind of God you could trust. Is there a faithful presence of some kind, in your life, that you are grateful for? That, in some sense, has loved you, and that you could love in return?

As the answers to these questions begin to come to you, consider writing and sharing a gratitude prayer based on today's reflection in the comments below.

- Lee