One good thing

 Welcome to the tenth Advent blog and thank you again for opting into another season of my spiritual ramblings.  If you are new here you are most welcome. 😁. Feel free to share any of these posts if you would like to and comment  knowing that your thoughts will be received kindly and gratefully. We are all in this together and all have something to add to the whole.

This past year has been one of the oddest of my Christian life. For the first time ever I have felt completely adrift from church and, most strangely, this hasn't really bothered me much.  I passionately believe that church, the meeting together of believers in community, is fundamental to my survival. For 30 odd years I've been part of a family which has taught me, disciplined me, loved and laughed with me, given me opportunities to serve and worship and travel and teach : I've loved church so much.  But right now.........

So, this Advent I'm on a quest to re-find my place in the purposes of God and maybe writing this blog will help.  As I've thought about how to approach it this year I've had the phrase 'one good thing' in my mind.  It started as a whisper, but this week it's got louder and now it's almost a command. I think God is challenging me to do one good thing every day during Advent.  And Im pretty sure the adventure is going to be in seeking Him for what each day's good thing should be, rather than trying to invent my own list of kindnesses. 

So, yesterday I did my first good thing - and it was an easy one. Whilst driving through McDonald's to pick up a coffee I decided to pay for the order of the people in the car behind me.  They were a young couple. I didn't know what they had ordered or if the checkout girl would understand that they were strangers to me. But as I watched in my rear view mirror I saw the couple exclaim with delight when they were told their lunch had been paid for. They then waved their thanks at me as I drove off.  It is ridiculous how happy it made me feel to do that.  If you've never done it I challenge you to go for a drive - through coffee simply to pay for the people behind ☕😁.  

Im going to share my 'one good thing' with you every day : not because I want to show off but because I think that is what God is asking me to do this year. I have a nasty feeling that it's going to be more difficult than I want it to be.  He might just ask me to spit in someone's eyes, or speak out against injustice or love someone unlovable.   Of course I should be living every day like that shouldn't I? And so should you 😁