Simple Moments

I’m the type of person that isn’t too fond of surface conversations. I don’t like shallow journal entries either, but I’m learning that nothing is really shallow with God.

I started a journal a while back, and the first few entries felt surface level and shallow at the time. I love artistic, symbolic, full of imagery, poetry… abstract, but this journal in just a few entries was becoming like a daily stream of consciousness that caught me off guard.

Daily — ordinary

Stream of consciousness — boring drawl.

As I continued to write in it though, it naturally went from what I felt was embarrassing, to complex and kind of beautiful. By being vulnerable in my writing, it actually opened the door to a raw, real life journey and revealed revelation in layers I didn’t see coming. After going back through some of those old entries I am learning, nothing is actually simple. Vulnerable and seemingly shallow topics can unlock deep revelation. Nothing is actually simple.

I recently went to a leadership conference and one of the speakers said, “it’s through simple moments that the world is changed.” I think it’s because simple isn’t really simple, it just seems that way. Ordinary opens the door for the extraordinary. It makes me realize that as I’m faithful to simple, ordinary and routine, God will reveal wondrous, beautiful, raw things. Dreaming big is great, but dreaming small gets you there.

I like deep, get down in the dirt grit conversation and ponderings. I like layered revelation that takes you down into the cave where treasure and raw diamonds hide, but I’m also learning that I like the walk in the open field. I like going on the hike it takes to draw water from the well, the seamingly surface, mundane, daily tasks, because that’s where the adventure begins. That’s where the defining moments happen. It’s in the daily that my hunger for God grows.

God isn’t ordinary and He is always moving on our behalf. So my simple isn’t really simple, because God is moving in the midst of it and that makes it more than it seems. That makes it extraordinary. That inspires me no matter what I’m doing.

I learned all of this through what started as seemingly shallow writings, but what followed was months of walking them out, seeking God’s voice, unraveling layers and receiving beautiful revelation based off of a couple honest entries. It’s good to be raw and honest and real with God and with yourself. Then you can say hi to “truly you” and walk out what you’re meant to walk out. It’s a bigger path than what you see. It’s goes deeper than what you think. And it’s a daring adventure with each beautiful, brave step you take.