This week we welcomed a new member to our family. Our youngest daughter gave birth to a 6 pound 15 ounce 20 inch long baby boy known as Nico. He is adorable. (For privacy reasons we don’t post pictures or give his full name online.) That day was the day I paid the insurance bill, filled the truck with gas, took the garbage out and placed an order for some stuff I needed. In some ways it seems odd that such a grand occasion should occupy the same space as the radically mundane.
But I believe that is what it is like to be a disciple. As a follower of Christ we are already living eternal life, but we are also physically moving toward the day our bodies stop working. We are living in a world with rampant evil, while at the same time in communion with the Holy One. We are buying, selling, working and functioning in the world, but at the same time we are doing all these things to the glory of the Ever Living God. I email people who are regular folk, but are also the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit.
Have you ever considered how the most earthly of moments are actually the place where God is at work. In Matthew 1 we read the ‘begat’ passages, “Abraham begat Issac”. About nine months before Issac was born Abraham and Sarah were engaged in an activity that may not have at the moment seemed especially religious and holy. But in that moment God was there and at work bringing about a little boy named Laughter. Perhaps there are no little moments, only our inability to perceive, understand or trust the greatness of every second call now.
So if your world did not experience a cosmic shift when Nico was born that is okay. Because the nature of the world is that in the same moment there is both the grand and holy and the plan and ordinary. Our God is so great that by His love and grace even the most mundane moment can be pregnant with the awesome.
Welcome to our tribe little Nico may you come to know the grace, love and joy of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in all of your now’s and for all eternity.
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