"Thinking Out Loud"

I want to give just a quick post just to think outloud. Have you ever had those moments that really strikes you? You know, those moments where something hits you and it makes you take notice or make you stand for a brief time in awe? You look at the skyline late one evening and there it is...a most spectacular sunset. You can't take your eyes off of it. You look away but your eyes are back on it. You have seen other sunsets but this was not ordinary. Or maybe you were out one night and just so happen to look up at the heavens above and notice that the stars are a little different, a little more brilliant than you have ever noticed. You look up again and for those few moments you stand amazed or in awe. You were driving in a region you are not that familiar with and suddenly, you notice a beautiful waterfall and find yourself drawn to looking, maybe stopping to get a picture. It just caught our attention and we just had to turn aside to see. We all, at one time or another, have seen something that got our attention and you can't "unsee" it even though you go back to the ordinary. It just seems to stay with us. Why I have even noticed that with a baby and the precious and magnificent life that you behold or touch.

Each of us have had our moments through some event that has affected us. Each of these, even though they aren't spiritual in nature, can have a profound effect on your thoughts. For those few brief moments, there was something "holy" and we really didn't realize it. It was out of the ordinary and our senses became keen. It was...well maybe a "burning bush" that caught our attention.

Moses must have seen a lot of bushes burning in the wilderness heat but he had never seen "a burning bush" if you get my drift. That day there was nothing ordinary in his sight. It was something that took him into a different world, into noticing that ordinary was not here. Haven't you been there?