I began to wonder if anyone else experienced God moments out of the blue like I do. I found the blog entries below that are beautiful illustrations, I think.

The first from God Still Loves Us Even Without a Lint Roller:

Lil kitty wanted my attention desperately. I didn’t want her to get on me because she would shed hair all over me and I didn’t have anything to clean it off… but she still wanted my attention. She didn’t understand why I didn’t want her to sit with me like she always had.. she’s a cat.. she understands mouse toy and food. But this started to make me think about God and me. I know there have been so many times I have shed my junk on him… but he always welcomes me back. He evens tells me to caste my burdens on him…

God knows we shed a lot… but like the prodigal son He waits for us to come to him as we are. The thing I learned from this little cat was persistence. Jesus taught us to knock and keep on knocking, ask and keep on asking, seek and keep on seeking and we will find what we need, the doors will be opened to us. God likes us to be persistent with him… not arrogant… but lovingly persistent in coming to him with our needs… just how we are. Max Lucado I think said it best when he wrote "God loves us exactly how we are but he is unwilling to leave us there." I’m glad that God is not worried about having a lint roller to show his love to me. He took care of all that already, all he wants from me is persistence in coming to him.

It took a small cat to remind me about pursuing God.

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This one from This is How It Should Be:

i just feel very light and centered. i went for a walk this morning and all of the trees looked so vibrant and the air felt really clean. i've been thinking about these ‘this is God’ moments i've been having a lot -- moments when everything feels aligned -- and i think, ‘yes, this is God.’ for example, the other day i was standing on the corner of burnside in downtown portland, right across from this giant bookstore called Powells. it was a bright, cold saturday morning. i was standing with a group of people waiting for the crosswalk to clear, and i felt this overwhelming sense of connectedness to these strangers. it seemed like we were all smiling, breathing in the sunshine and each other. at that moment, i felt like i had arrived. that this was how life is beyond the pain and frustration of day to day living -- this sort of quiet connectedness.”

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Lovely.