Something New Every Day

With summer’s close fast approaching I thought I would help you look back & forward. It has been a great time to get away, and experience a change of scenery. I time to experience different things and go where you have never gone before, (sorry Star Trek Fans). But that is what many of us do every year. Several of us, do things that include changing our whole routine. Now that’s hard - almost. Strange as that may sound we can and do change for a week but would never consider changing the regular, comfortable, daily grind that we get all too used to the rest of the year. Especially at church.

Those snippets of something different can be very invigorating, challenging and even refreshing. Now there’s a word for you, refreshing. Some new and refreshing experiences can be that experience that energizes us and for brief moments in life we find ourselves saying, “I can get used to this”. The experience has us also thinking what it means for our life in general and to step out of the ordinary more often might just be what our live needs. God created a vast, amazing, diverse world to live in, and to see Him in it we just have to look.

What’s wrong with getting out of our comfort zone and doing things we do only once a year? Start off slow. Do something you have never done before - say once a month. An example could be to go and find all the waterfalls around our Niagara Escarpment. Believe me, you will find Him there. What we did differently was to decide 10 years ago we would try our hand at Stained Glass work. Took us long enough to get to it but three months ago we made a simple sun catcher one Wednesday afternoon with Kim and now we are doing full size windows. We also did something else last weekend. One part of our family (our mom’s side) has never come together for a family picnic. As the last one left they said, “We have to do it again, can you picked a date for next year”.

How about you? God didn’t just create this world for us to live a routine life and let all the others to experience this God created world. He did it for all of us. Sure as we live, God created everything, including us, and we can find Him in all we see, do and experience. Even with September on the doorstep, make plans, set a date, and as Nike said it best, “Just Do It!”

Something to think about

Rob