What place
from your past is of spiritual importance to you? What makes this place so meaningful? (Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary
Edition, p.106)
Israel
means “he struggles with God.” Looking
back over my life at spiritually significant times, I would characterize many
of them as “God struggles with me.” God
is the proactive one, and I am too often the fearful, blind, reluctant
one. This is so much a part of my life,
that when I think of spiritually significant times, they are always on the growing
cusp of experience. The present, the
moving “now” is always of greatest significance—not some nostalgic moment in
the past. I cannot help but be grateful
for all the blessings that over the years have been bestowed on me, but God’s
questions to me always seem to be “But what have you done for me lately? What have I planted in the past that should bear
fruit today?” I do not seek to build and
set aside monumental pyramids to encapsulate eternity. My faith is much like the national electrical
grid—spiritual experience is not stored, but is excruciatingly transient and
shared. I continually rely on the
spiritual resources provided daily.
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