😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you. With all the choices you have in front of you, thank you for sharing this moment with me. Four years ago, I created a calendar that I titled Moments Matter. Like this moment, you have many options staring you in the face, so how do you decide which moment to give your attention to? What are those driving factors in the background that draw you to choose one moment over another?
Sometimes those moments will go exactly as you expected or planned, but I would guess the majority of moments we experience don’t go as planned. When we make our choices, we tend to base those decisions on either the visible or that which we hope for. I know I’ve spoken with you before about the Walk to Emmaus, but that life changing moment is something I will never grow tired of sharing. July 20-23 was the Greater Dayton Emmaus Women’s Walk #110. This Walk was even more special for me, because I had the privilege of sponsoring two pilgrims. I’d talked with my friend many times about taking her Walk, and this spring she reached out to me saying that she was ready. It was her time! Thank You Lord! About a week or so later, she told me that she invited her mother-in-law along. Sweet!
With spending almost every nonworking moment, working on the new house, I could have told her that the timing just wasn’t right for me to sponsor them, but their moment was much greater and more important than any moment I would have had working on the house during that time. They went into their Walk weekend with some general expectations and desires for what they wanted to walk away from the weekend with. They may have also had some desires that they secretly hoped for, but maybe figured might be too good to be true. The night before the Walk began, my friend texted me…”I am almost actually hoping to look like Moses when he came off of the mountain when I get back.” My response to her was…”I’m guessing you will have that Moses glow about you, but I imagine you don’t necessarily want all the gray hair.” Did they see a burning bush on a mountain? …No. Did they experience the real and true presence of God and His undeniable love and grace? …Beyond a shadow of a doubt they did! Like Moses, after experiencing living that moment in the presence of the Lord, their lives will never the same. There is no possibility of them going back to the individuals they were, before experiencing God during their Walk weekend. And that’s a good thing!
All moments matter, not just those mountain top experiences. Make wise choices and have a blessed day.
Bless others and be blessed.
Shelly :0)
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