Just an ordinary day...

It is funny, I guess I thought it would be a little more dramatic. I prayed "the prayer" and went through the day anticipating a surprise...but the day was like so many others. My computer for work was sent away more than a week ago...it was still gone and my daily forays into the world of retail and wholesale have come to a halt. My office is tidy, which means, I am barely out there working. My office is tidy, which means I have more time on my hands than normal. My office is tidy...to some, espescially my former secretaries (and my mother) that would be a surprise. The day slipped by, we went grocery shopping at night...something I have always found surreal. The dog and I slipped into the warm evening and walked around our quiet little town.

Was there a surprise...I don't think so. I am going to speak at a retreat in the fall, for a guy, who was a kid in my youth group in Langley. I am always conscious of the unique connections I have with my past in ministry and yesterday the reality of saying yes to my friend seemed like the connecting of some big "circle of life". There are a lot of those connections...in my life. Sometimes they are hard to manage, sometimes they are too full of surpises. Today I said yes to speaking at his retreat and I am excited (that is a good thing) and I want to do well (that is an even better thing) and the ordinary day turned into something extraordinary because I was connected yet again to the truth, that my life has been (and is) a life of influence.

I just have to say that our small group began to pray this prayer as well. We met last night and the night was full, of conversation, concern and comradery. It was sweet. I wonder what is happening to them, for them? Even as we speak, God is at work...