School Supplies

I have a deep love for school supplies. They are tools of creativity. Bright colors, calming patterns, or cute themes… it all brings me joy. The vast potential. We can cut and glue and tape things into new pieces of art. We can scribble and draw and color our dreams into reality. We can write down the stories of our souls. I have a particular set of tiny sticky notes that my mom gave me that I LOVE! I used them to organize my notes and random writings that will soon(ISH) turn into a book. I lost them. I have been searching everywhere for admittedly a few months now. I made the decision to let it go and use a different set this morning and to start my day in my Bible. Life has again been crazy, and I have been falling back on my phone Bible app and generally not spending enough time alone with God. I opened up to a chapter I had been studying a while back.

Tucked right in the middle was that set of sticky notes.

I thought I had looked everywhere- and I had- sort of. I had looked everywhere in my power but had failed to look in the ultimate source of my power. 

In that moment, I realized how incredibly often I do that. Despite always saying to ask for help or give it to Jesus or let it go or… I so very often expect of myself that I can handle things. Keep them organized. Take  care of the details. Prayer isn’t only for the big things. Jesus wants to walk with us in all the little and all the big. To laugh with us and cry with us and dance with us and carry us when we can’t even crawl. I need to remember that my ‘faith like a child’ includes the tasks, not simply the knowledge. Trusting God with the details- ALL of the details- even the details of the to-do lists- and simply taking the next step He tells me to take. A moment of divine revelation sparked by some cartoon baby animal sticky notes. And isn’t that just like Him to show up in something that seems trivial or insignificant. To use our smallness to reveal His greatness. 

My friends, His wisdom and love truly are to be found everywhere. In the everyday stuffs of life. Noah found it in the sand he built an ark on top of. Moses in the water lapping his toes on a seashore with an army bearing down. David in a handful of stars. Incomprehensible power and love and faithfulness surround us. We can find it anywhere; we need only look.

Even in the smell of new crayons and the sound of new notebook pages.

I want to move through my days on this world catching glimpses of Heaven and sharing them with others. Glimpses of how much He loves us all. Where will we see it next? That’s the adventure of faith. The joy of hope. To know that there are always more glimmers to be found.