Although I like to vary my walking routes around Hapeville, when I need to get the most miles in the shortest of time I walk around the ball fields. Whether walking or running, my head is usually down so I can watch the sidewalks and not trip and bust my nose or worse. I can be a klutz. Yesterday morning as I came around the front corner of the park I heard a bird singing. I looked up to see if I could spot it in the trees. Instead I saw something I hadn’t expected. On a streetlight hung a large hornet’s next. It had probably been there all summer but I hadn’t noticed. I was too busy looking down or maybe at the ball players & spectators. When we get out of our rut and look in a new direction, we can make new discoveries. If you haven’t felt the evidence of God recently in your life, maybe you need to look somewhere new. Read different scriptures; serve in a soup kitchen or homeless shelter; visit a shut-in; pray more and listen for a response with your heart. My feet become calloused from taking the same steps over and over. Our senses become calloused from lack of variety. We take things for granted and lose our sense of wonder as things become commonplace to us. Look around and look up. You may see something new.
God, you created a large wonderful world and populated it with many different types of things and people. Help us to get out of our ruts and more fully sense and appreciate your creation. We asked in the name of the one who healed the deaf and blind. Amen.
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