Sometimes we need to learn to open
our eyes and see God at work. Yes, learn to see Him at work. Sometimes it’s
obvious, but other times, we have to force ourselves to think about why we’re
not seeing God in our neighborhood and in our lives.
Frederick Buechner writes in such
an engaging style that it’s easy to gloss over the important stuff without even
seeing it. My how art imitates life. His book The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look and Listen to Life (Zondervan,
2017) points out that we are often so busy looking for something beyond
ordinary that we don’t see the remarkable. It’s happening here. It’s happening
now. And yet we miss it.
Sometimes we need to slow down, not
easy to do in today’s hectic world, and be careful that you don’t fall into the
trap that Buechner, in his 90’s has no choice but to slow down. Being slow is a
learned art form. And it’s in art that
we often see the remarkable, or at least teaches us what to be looking for.
Those who have a strong faith walk might also be able to see the remarkable:
after all we’re used to being told that God is present in even the smallest
detail.
And this master storyteller points
out the importance of laughter, but also, and no surprise here, of telling
stories. Stories matter, and we all have them, but like God, like the
remarkable, we often don’t see them, and so we miss out on much of what’s going
on in our lives.
The
Remarkable Ordinary is filled with stories. Stories that point out how we
travel on a journey, to an unknown destination, but if we take time to stop,
look and listen to life, we generally end up with a life of peace—better than
we used to be, even if we still have room to grow.
5/5
I received a copy of this book from
Handlebar in exchange for my review
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