Looking for God in the Ordinary

On Saturday or Sunday, I sit down with my coffee, planner, and dry erase board where I write our meals for the week. This is one of my favorite moments of sabbath each weekend. I place my Walmart order and plan meals. It’s not a task that actually takes very long, but it’s turned into this sweet moment of rest and I like to take my time doing it.

Ordinary things like this have the potential to become gifts from God if we allow them to be that … if we have eyes to see them that way. When I do this small thing, it’s like a deep breath. And it’s a moment where I say, “Thanks, God, for being Provider. Last week, this week, and always.”

God loves to be invited into our daily routine. Years ago, a friend told me she uses her time folding laundry as a time of prayer and intercession. Another friend said she felt the delight of God in her as she was sweeping her floors. If we look for God, we will find him.

“Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is open to everyone who knocks. You parents — if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly father give good gifts to those who ask him.“ Matt. 7:7-11