You are a child of God-Together

"On my best day I'm a child of God, on my worst day I'm a child of God."-Cain

The thankful November posts are slowly winding down. I am one of those social media folx who has consistently done these. Like most people I have done them to help up my practice of demonstrating and saying I'm grateful for my overwhelmingly abundant blessings. I think anytime we can take a moment to demonstrate our gratefulness for those things which we have and create is worth it. Additionally I began trying to be grateful for all of things that happen in this life. I am not as diligent in this practice and it is for a simple reason, like everyone else on earth it's much easier to be thankful and grateful when things are going well, it's a helluva lot harder to be grateful when things are hard or uneasy. 

Lately I've felt a sense of being "off". I am not sure why that is exactly but my guess is that we are in one of the longer stretches of calm that life has blessed us with. Now I can image some of you are thinking, calmness is great. You're right but it can also be very anxiety inducing for some, I am that person. I am a person who is great in a crisis. I find the calm in chaos. Chaos for me, it is when things are quiet and calm. Anticipation of what will come next is hard.

Now that we are fully in the throws of Advent and I'm committed to daily writing about the Advent Word of the Day 2022 I'm trying to diligently think about what it means to be "together" in this period of waiting. For me it means throwing myself into all of the communities that I'm apart of. It means taking the time to sit down and be fully present and together with the PKs and the Vicar. It means learning how to see the grace of our creator in everyone. Learning to stretch myself, knowing that I have communities to hold me accountable and to fall back on as needed. 

Together, as children of God, we can do things. On your very best and worst days and on every random Tuesday, you're a child of god. Let's walk together towards that growing light.