Searching for a Signal. Most of the time when we go in search for a signal from God, we are in the midst of an EVENT. It can be tragic event, a turning-point event or even an event that we don’t quite understand. It could be a child coming home and asking questions about God, even though you don’t understand God yourself. It could be asking why is this happening to me, happening now, or to people in my life. It could be asking, are You there? Those are big questions to be asking and by asking those questions you are looking for a specific signal from God.
But what happens when those events pass? While Events can have long-lasting effects, the event itself only happens for a short period of time. And when they end we stop seeking the signals. We stop asking the questions because we go back to our lives of carpool, work, PTA, gym, weekend games, volunteering. We go back to attending church with what we think will be a newfound purpose but then our lives get in the way and we attend church as a routine on Sunday.
I am guilty of all of the above. I am guilty of really seeking out God when I NEED it and when it is convenient for me. I am guilty of going back to my life and forgetting everything I have learned because I get so caught up in the minute by minute of my day that I forget to look for God’s signals. I get frustrated, angry and fed-up when everyday there are five pairs of shoes for each member of my family but the one time (okay more like five times) we are running behind there is one of each shoe and it is for the same foot. Or how my son Jake, has a knack for every time, EVERY TIME, I set one foot out the door, he poops. Without fail, he poops. He could have just gone and I changed his diaper and had him all ready but then one foot out the door, there is that familiar smell. And then I heard a song…A song that made me stop and see Gods signals in a whole new way. A way that taught me that Gods signals are in thousands of every day blessings and if I just take one moment to stop, breathe and revel in what is happening around me I can see Signals of God’s Grace, Love and Abundance everywhere. Now, I by no means can practice this newfound wisdom on a daily basis and I still get frustrated and angry and fed-up (ask the cashier at WalMart) and in order to remind me seek God’s Signals I actually had to make the song my ringtone. But every time I hear it, it gives me new resolve to find those everyday blessings in the simple signals God puts in my everyday life.
I would like to share this song with you and while you are listening think of some things that have happened in your life that in the middle of your day made you say “Thank you God”. Things that while it was raining on you, your $6 latte spilling down your shirt and everything was going wrong, you just had to chuckle and smile. Things that came of out of no where and yet you knew they came from Him?
