Moments that seen very small

There are moments that seem very small,

so small you might miss them:

a door held open, a meal dropped off,

a birthday remembered, a song lyric in the evening,

a seeming aside in the midst of a gospel story.

And yet those can be the moments

which somehow end up telling us

something

big

important

true

about ourselves or about a relationship

about an institution or about a family,

or even about God.

It runs counter to a world accustomed to

worshipping big and bombastic and demonstrative to

take a moment for what is small in the story but

you know better, you always have.

Small can be vital,

small can be life-giving.

Small can be the unexpectedly important brick left in the wall,

holding back the darkness and the howl.

Don't overlook the small moments

when God comes to call.

Don't miss the asides and the glances

and the sentences and the pauses that remind you,

God is humming a song of very particular love to you.

-Sarah Bessey

I brought this old, beaded curtain that used to be in Anna's doorway when she was little to decorate the door for our supervisor meeting today.  Fun to have a little whimsy to greet folks as they joined us today!  (This picture above is me and Bobbie, the wonderful woman I am getting to work with for the placement work at SPU) 

me and Grace (who always makes me smile) 

early morning hug with Ellie Chapman the other morning 

more whimsy as we gave Jessica a silly stuffed animal racoon as a little graduation present as a nod to a funny story when a racoon was quite bold and stood in her path when she was walking to the bus stop one day)