Live on Alert

 

One of the fun aspects of walking in my neighborhood is that you truly never know what you might happen upon. It is not every day, and not just in any neighborhood, that one can see a kettle drum trying to get someone to answer the door. Or, perhaps it is a timpani trying to make a quick, early morning exit. Either way, it was an interesting sight to behold on a recent morning.

The scriptures tell us that, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” It is the nature of the life of faith to be looking for what we have not seen and to be listening for news that will be unlike anything else we have heard before. The life of faith is a life of imagination, always open to new ways of thinking and new ways of being.

So isn’t it interesting that we spend so much of our time thinking we have seen it all and heard it all and done it all? Why do we lose that sense of adventure and wonder about what the day may hold or what gifts may come our way? Why do we feel bored with life? We should live on alert, ready to experience the unexpected. We should be motivated by the thought that we might be the means through which others see and hear and imagine what God has for them.

Peace.