Mundane Moments

I’m writing this post from a few thousand feet as I fly from my hometown, Detroit, to Las Vegas for a business meeting. I’m an impatient person, so being forced to sit still for a four-hour flight cramped between the window and a stranger drinking cheap red wine is a nightmare for me. I’m both restless and irritable as I sit here flipping between Us Magazine (insert grace here) and various iPhone apps.

At some point over Indiana I remembered that I had downloaded Rob Bell’s book Velvet Elvis onto my Kindle app and decided to read it in lieu of the adventures of Brangelina. I wish someone had forced me to read this ages ago. I. Love. It.

Anyway, as I’m reading, I get to a part where Bell describes talking with two engaged friends in preparation for thier wedding. The husband-to-be, like his fiancée, isn’t a believer in God. But here’s what the groom says about the beauty of the natural, outdoor wedding location: “Something holds this all together.” I’ve just come off of a wild weekend with some intense ups and downs. In the downs I experienced moments of grief and peace. Grace. And peace. At the same time. And in it all there was this intense faith that something is holding this together.

So, as I fly I and read pages from Bell about “beautiful moments in the midst of the mundane,” moments that are just as God breathed as the intense, obvious God moments, I think about how we often miss them. He says that “there is way more going on here than we realize,” and he’s right.

And as I read these words in my crampped, hot, stuffy Delta Airlines seat, I look up. And out.

Just below me, glowing against the setting sun, are the tops of the Rockies. There are snow and clouds. Valleys and summits. And as we move forward there are rivers and canyons. And that is only what I can see. In my discomfort I almost missed something so beatuiful it speaks truth into my soul just by existing. It reminds me that something is holding this all together. Nature cries out in praise.

A mundane moment.

By the way, I’m back to writing after a two week break. Life junk and work travel have taken oven my life in recent days so a brief sanity break was in order. Thanks for continuing to read. It feels good to be back :)