Outta the Pig Sty!

This morning I looked out the window. I do that every morning but on this particular one it felt like the world had taken a breath in. It had an unearthly quietness and through this stillness a woman was jogging – silently. Quite surreal. But somehow in that ordinary moment God breathed “I am here!”

The moment made me think of Moses and the burning bush. He had just led his flocks to a new place. It was an ordinary day, an ordinary bush and yet somehow God gets his attention. God makes the bush burn and says “Take off your shoes, you are on holy ground.”

I am sure there holy moments every day that we miss because we are just too busy.

A couple of years back I wrote this:

You’re the poetry/ You’re the words that make and move me/ You’re the innocent/ You transform for me the beauty/ Of simple things/ Like a packet in the wind…