“Jump out your bed / Shake your head / Clear the haze. / Step out your house / And prepared to be amazed. / It's just another one of those glory days.”
I wonder how many of us start the day the way Just Jack does in the song ‘Glory Days’? Not too many I’d wager. But why not? When we stop and think about it the world in which we live is an amazing and beautiful place and the people that we meet day by day are unique in their personalities and abilities.
Christians believe that God created the world and human beings and can be seen in someway in both. We have a reason for stepping out of our homes and preparing to be amazed. We can encounter God in the everyday. I wonder how many of us do?
Often we feel too busy or too pressurised to stop and really look around us at the wonder of the world, the uniqueness of other people and to see in both the face of God. Saint Paul tells us to go through life with an attitude of looking out for things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely and honourable and he expects us to find them.
Maybe if we were to adopt that attitude then, like Just Jack, we would step out of our homes and prepare to be amazed - by all that can be seen of God in our world and in the people we encounter.
2 comments:
Nice to see the blog up and running Jonathan. Looking forward to more inspiring commentaries and personal reflections on life as a christian in the modern day world. I'll just have to refrain from collecting and using more Jonathan gobbits, such as Jonathan claims that the differentiation betweent the secular and holy is entirely man made.
Sen
Hi Spen,
Glad you like the blog.
I've got a great little book ('No Splits' by a guy called Steve Shaw) on the problems caused by splitting the so-called 'secular' and 'sacred'. It's probably out of print now but, I quote, "It is my conviction that the either/or, the traditionalists or the modernists, is an improper option. It is based on a misinformed perspective that splits life into two incompatible realms, sacred and the secular: either we withdraw from the world to the sacred realm with the traditionalists and become culturally irrelevant, or we capitulate to the world with the modernists and become spiritually impotent. What we need if we are to avoid the errors of either traditionalism or modernism is a Christian perspective that does not split life into sacred and secular realms. We need a perspective that integrates all areas of life as it is lived in this world under the one, spiritual, Lordship of Christ."
Worth getting hold of or borrowing.
It was encouraging to hear our Archdeacon, Michael Fox, saying much the same thing last night at the Redbridge Deanery Synod, in talking about our response to environmental issues.
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