God in the Ordinary

JtM sent me a quote from the John Ortberg book God is Nearer than you Think:

Garrison Keillor says God speaks in "ordinary things like cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids -- all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through

God is in the ordinary. I'm sure that I will pick up that theme for a larger post later, but just a short story for this evening.

I was out in our backyard on Memorial Day, doing something unusual. I was sitting on our patio swing, watching the bird feeders. We had two blue jays sitting on our brick wall. That's rare -- we usually only have one of them at a time. On of the blue jays hopped up on the bird feeder and picked up a seed. He (or she) hopped back onto the wall and handed that seed to the other blue jay. Just gave it away.

It was grace. It was a gift to have the time to sit outside on a perfect morning and watch one bird share his breakfast with another.

God in the ordinary.