My Summer Reflections

Over the past spring, God began to whisper to me and in many different ways to Pay Attention & Receive. Those words seemed to be in every passage of scripture I read, in every book I listened to as I painted, in podcasts, or the radio…everywhere I looked those two words repeated.

And then I stumbled across a quote in The Waymaker by Ann Voskamp:

“In the stillness, there can be attentiveness beyond our own questioning of God, to the questions God is asking us……   Attentiveness leads to receptiveness. And the more attentive we are to what is happening in our lives, the more receptive we are to God’s way, and my attentiveness to God’s questions, God’s asking, might ground me, reroute me, return me…..Attend to God’s questions to tend your own soul. Attending to where you are tends to change the way you are.” ( pg 150 - 152)    

I have found as I creep closer to 50 and my children begin to approach the moment where they fly from this nest we have created, I am in a state of wondering, wondering what it has all been about. And yet, this summer God very gently whispered to me that these two sweet, thoughtful humans we have raised, have been and still are my most important work.