Remembering Anew God's Presence in Every Moment

Isn't it wonderful when God brings you back to a truth you've known for years and then adds new dimension and depth to it? He reveals a new way to look at the words that then minister to you afresh right where you are in your current place.

("For the Word of God is living and powerful,..." Heb. 4:12)

With that in mind, I thought I'd post these beginning sentences from a chapter in a book I am currently reading.

The primary wonder of our Christian faith is that God comes to the place where we are and says our name. This is the nature of our God, who begins the biblical story by walking with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. And even after there is separation between them, God pursues them with the poignant question, "Where are you?" It is a question that echoes throughout the Old Testament and then reverberates again and again in the New Testament. Surely God knows where we are, even when we are lost or unaccounted for in some other way. So the question is not some sort of celestial attempt to determine our location. Instead it seems to arise out of the longing of God's own heart that we would be aware and awake both to where we are and to God's presence in the place where we are.

~excerpt from Journaling as a Spiritual Practice by Helen Cepero

(Psalm 139:8-12)