As I walked away from the Glade, about to pass the Victory Garden, I hear someone call after me. He is holding my cell phone in his hand. I look down and see the distinctive yellow elephant sticker that almost serves as my Shine's birthmark.
I look up at his face and say, "Oh my gosh, thank you." He smiles and turns to walk away.
I think to myself, smiling, "Wow, that is like the second or third time I've almost lost my phone and someone has returned it." My thoughts drift to how moments like this lead me to have faith that there are good people on this earth.
Or at the very least that that seems like a common musing. The five dollar bill that you dropped gets returned to you. Someone goes out of their way to open the door for you and waits for the ten other people to go in before entering themselves. Your stack of papers spills onto the ground as you are walking and a few people stop to help you gather them. Each "random act of kindness" makes you stop and say, "Hey! The world is not a bad place. :) The birds are singing, people are helping each other..."
But it occurred to me. Why do we see these things as signs that the cold, self-centered, fallen world that we live in isn't as bad as we thought it was? Maybe if we look a little closer and harder, we could see evidence of God. Maybe it is cause to say that in this fallen world that God is working and moving. Might I suggest that the good of this earth and beyond this earth is God. He is the source. And that it is within the context of the bad and the difficulties of this world which God calls us to ask for what is good, what is God.
1 comment:
mmmm, good thoughts.
until we get that point, we also won't truly see the depth of our own sin.
it is hard to actually reach that point without the scripture. but to start from here is (to realize the goodness of God in creation), i think, necessary.
in fact, in the bible, this becomes the basis of our being "inexcusable." (Romans 1)
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