Just read a blog that inspired me to write one myself. The blog was about the seemingly random encounters we have with people and if and how and to what extent they impact our lives (and the lives of others).
It reminded me of a conversation I had a few weeks ago with someone; it was about how everything in life is far more spiritual than we realize. Unfortunately, we out-of-sight-out-of-mind people constantly need to be reminded of that. One instant we’re “awake” to spirituality, the next, we behave as we’re completely oblivious to it. But “spirituality” is real.
That said every seemingly random “encounter” we experience MUST have an impact. Even the laws of nature declare this to be so. Nothing happens without affecting something else. Even sound waves never stop. Words spoken, songs sung, go on and on . . . forever.
Amazing.
It makes me wonder who and what is being affected when I, alone in my apartment, sit down at the piano and begin singing songs of praise, or even just sweet love songs. Are those moments really just between me and my God? Or do those songs do more than I realize?
The scriptures tell us that the prayers of the saints are “kept” and that they have the ability to make a difference. I’ve also read somewhere that we are to “pray without ceasing.” Our whole lives are, in essence, a prayer.
If that is the case, it must follow that everything we say, do, everywhere we go, everyone we encounter, ALL have the same impact that prayer has.
Amazing, isn’t it? A bit frightening and encouraging at the same time.
I’m sorry, “teacher,” everything isn’t “meaningless.” Quite the contrary. When God is alive in us EVERYTHING and EVERYONE, matters.