Walk IV: God in the Ordinary

Scripture

Keep my steps steady according to your promise, and never let iniquity have dominion over me. Redeem me from human oppression, that I may keep your precepts. Make your face shine upon your servant, and teach me your statutes.

Psalm 119:133-135

Prayer

Almighty and everlasting God,
increase in us thy gift of faith
that, forsaking that which is behind
and reaching out to that which is before,
we may run the way of thy commandments
and win the crown of everlasting joy;
through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with thee,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Reflection

The Spirit’s work is not to lift us out of the ordinary but to put us in Christ, who himself is quite comfortable in our ordinary flesh and existence. The Spirit carries forward Christ’s mission, but in ways that feel perhaps ordinary, physical, and dauntingly communal.

— Julie Canlis

As you walk

God asks us: “Where are you?”
We answer God: “Here I am.”

Write, speak, or simply pray on where you are.

Here I am…

• What questions do you have in response to God?
• What stories of your own life or from another arise?
• What are your “Amens” — your epiphanies, discoveries, celebrations?