Shimmering Moments

I remember the first time I came across a reference to shimmering moments in our daily life.  What the author was writing about was the fact that if we are paying attention to all the things and everyone around us, we will see things, or people which grab our attention.   A shimmering moment can happen as we take a walk down a familiar path and suddenly see what we have seen a thousand times, but never really noticed.  Or, it may happen as we are reading the Scripture and find ourselves captivated by a few words, or maybe even a single word.     

The world is shimmering all around us, but we so often fail to see.  Like the rain droplets which stand out on leaves or the hood of our car, so are there things which show up fresh and new and never before seen.  Some folks might walk out of the house and mutter something about the fact that it has been raining and others see  the mysterious way things are made clean and shimmer in the bright sunlight.    

God has created a marvelous world all around us.  He has put us in the  presence of some ordinary people who bring along with them extraordinary experiences and insights.  When we really pay attention to all that He has put out there on the path He has called us to walk, we are likely to see those things which shimmer.  And when we do, we can know that it is His gift to us.  All may seem ordinary around us, but there is nothing ordinary about the moments God has laid out for us.  They are all extraordinary.  Some of them are shimmering, calling for our attention, and point to the presence and revelation of the Almighty Creator.