Thursday Mornings

From derrach.blogspot.com

Thursday. For you it might just be a day. Actually, for me it is sometimes just a day too...but most of the time it's special. Thursday symbolizes a lot of things to me because over the years it has become a significant day. For some reason important things always fall on Thursday for me...especially in the morning. For years now I've been meeting early at church for prayer on Thursday. For quite some time I was accompanied by several other men from the church, currently it's mainly one gentleman by the name of Lee.

Ahh, Thursday. Sometimes I wake up excited, sometimes dragging my feet. Sometimes I get going because I am looking forward to it, sometimes because I know if I'm not there the place won't be open for others. Whatever the case may be, week in and week out, it's been a time that to me is special, nearly sacred, and times like that help us extract meaning from the everyday events that seem to swirl into a blur.

Let me ask you...what moments are special - say - sacred to you? Is there a day? Is there an event? Maybe it's a particular encounter or conversation you have on a weekly or monthly basis. I've been thinking lately, "don't we discredit God and his presence in all of life when we only say that 'going to church' is spiritually meaningful? Didn't he say that he came to give us LIFE more abundantly? So what does that mean?"

Now I know that my example involved church but you know, sometimes it isn't even that I'm in that particular building, sometimes it's just the fact that soft music is playing, or that Lee is there talking to God too, sometimes it's the sunrise and sometimes it's just that I know I'm heard - no matter where I am. Those things are what makes Thursday morning sacred to me.

So find it, search out the sacred in everyday living, enjoy it, thank God for it, share it with others and come to see that HE is involved all throughout your life.