A Day with Jesus

I worked on bringing Jesus into the mundane aspects of my life today. At first, this goes against the grain of my spiritual up-bringing. It sounds like an excuse for not "setting aside daily time with the Lord." Even as I typed that last sentence, I felt the guilt start to well up inside my soul.

It would be one thing to "give the day to the Lord" as an after-thought. But, this was something I planned to do. I knew I was going to be all over the place with chores and activities. I knew that it would be a long time before I could sit still. But, now that I am stilled, I can acknowledge that it felt good.

As I was getting my car washed today, a toddler (whose mom was waiting for her own car) walked over to me and raised his hands. I was caught off guard and immediately eye-balled the mother. She said to go ahead, so I picked up the lad and we spent a glorious 10 minutes looking around and naming all the things we could see. No agenda. No hurry. Just noticing cars, trees, balloons, people and the assorted other stuff that went by. I walked away with a wave of my hand and a smile on my face.

You never know who may come along when one takes time to invite the Lord to come along.

1 Samuel 22-24