I am at a Spiritual Formations retreat this week. Today, as we paused to reflect on the Word and contemplated the different ways we hear God’s voice I was reminded of how easy it is to rush through our lives and forget we are citizens of a greater kingdom. I wrote about this a little a while back. Today, I’d like to invite you to remember with me that we belong to another world.
There’s something about a mountain that gets your attention.
I lived in Seattle for about three years after graduating from college. It was a different world for this Texas girl. There was rain, for one thing. And trees. And tulips in the spring. I could drive down to a beach near my apartment, sit on the beach, and see mountains across Puget Sound.
One of the things I never got used to was seeing Mount Rainer looming over the freeway. On clear days it felt like you could reach out and touch it. I’d forget sometimes it was there. I’d be sitting there, stuck in traffic, drumming on the steering wheel and look up—boom. It was right there in front of me: a majestic mountain, reminding me that there was a world outside the boundaries of concrete and steel.
Kingdom living is like that. Click here to read the rest of the post.