A couple of days ago I finally filled up the last page of my manly leather bound journal...so today was "New Journal Day." I usually always make my purchase at Barnes and Nobel, so as I made my way through the huge doors, and past the fake mahaghony anti-theft system, and into the wisdom emporium know as the main floor my nose is filled with smells of coffee beans, baked goods, and unopened book pages. This may be the greatest place on earth.
I usually take a couple of seconds to just stand and bask in the glory of all that is a books store then I slowly make my way to my destination. So as I am searching through all the different selections of leather bound journals, pink ones, red ones, ones with zebra print, ones with words like "think" or "journey" on them the whole time I am up and down and all around the book case, sometimes on my feet sometimes on my knees, and as I am sitting on my knees with three or four different journals on the ground around me, I realize that if someone who didn’t know anything about a book store or what a journal is were to come in right now they would think I was a loony. But as it is people are passing me on every side and not thinking twice about my posture, because I am "looking for a journal."
I wonder if when the Bible says things about kneeling in front of the Lord, or being prostrate in front of Him, or every knee will bow...if its not saying more about shaking us from the normality of our lives, because I can be on my knees with journals in front of me in a book store and be worshiping God and no one would ever know it, but if I got down on my knees in the middle of a highway and raised my hands do you think people would notice? I don’t even know the point of this I'm still processing, but it makes me think that when Jesus talks about doing things, maybe its not so much the process of what we do like, read the Bible, pray, give thanks, but maybe its that He wants us to break away from the normality of life, and see Him.
2 comments:
That was some good stuff. I'll need to think about it some more. Oh, and I always approach Barnes & Nobles with a little bit of awe myself. There are not many things better than the smell of a new book...
thank you Jen...that means a lot. Yeah you can't beat that feeling, I actually just got a new one today! It's a different kind of world for people like you and me I guess. Thanks again.
Grace and Peace...
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