Musings of the summering blues….

My Glorious, the mysteries of long past and forgotten slowly unfold from in obscurity to present in a flash. It’s funny to see the modus operandi of the Father in seemingly enigmatic ways come to life in such a full circle that, one would not even begin to fathom the depth of such circumstances. For example, I was going to a job interview last week in Columbia, MD. It was an insurance company, and I was applying for the job as an account rep. I was nervous did the interview but, insofar as to say, no job for the B-dogg. As I was driving home, I felt lost, lonely and disconsolate but most of all, missing the Adirondacks and my *compatriot; however the omnipresence and good humor of the Father shone down upon my sorry behind. As I sat at the traffic light weighting to turn onto Security Blvd, a horn honked at my car. I thought to myself ‘what on earth did I do?’ but, as I turned a man was with his son next to me in his Chevy and said “What part?” and I responded ‘what part of what?’. “New York, what part of New York are you from?” I replied, ‘from Plattsburgh, in the Adirondacks.’ All of a sudden the man’s eyes lighted up, he told me that he was from the same general area and moved here sixteen years ago, he told me that this was a wonderful place to live, and I would enjoy it.

            In that moment I stopped and smiled. You can say what you will about happenstance but, I felt the presence of God resting on myself afterward. A sense of comfort, if anyone has moved away forever from their original homeland [yes, Peaslyville is its own country.] you would feel a little lost as well. It felt as a wink to me that God was saying ‘I am even here in the scary city.’**

 I had a similar experience this week. I had to go to take my praxis exam, and as I drove out through the city and went into suburbia I found something that I had been missing for a while: trees. I pulled up into the parking lot and as I turned behind me, I saw a dazzling spectacle, mountains. I stared in awe at the two magnificent beasts rising from the earth. As I looked a breeze caught me on my left side, and all I could do was smile. I think in more than anything, I can see God in nature, in the trees, the grass and the stupendous mountains that have stood since the time of creation. I think that every once in a while God just wants to give us a little taste of paradise, to remind us that we are not of this world so; its okay if we feel that we aren’t home yet. We’ll be there soon enough though.

 “The voice said, “Cry out!”
And he said, “What shall I cry?”

“All flesh is grass,
and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades,
because the breath of the LORD blows upon it;
surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God stands forever.” –Isaiah 40:6-8 [NKJV]

*my compatriot is Jason Godzilla Roberts and yes, that semicolon is for him.

**Murder count now at: 195, in Baltimore.