How Do We Move Through Our Moments

I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.(Jn.10)

I want to share with you the wisdom of a simple baker.  His name is Jacob.

I take this story from Noah benShea’s book Jacobs Journey.  

I hope it touches you as it has touched me.  

Jacob the Baker was on an unfamiliar journey to an unfamiliar place.  And he used his imagination to make his moment into meaning.

“If every moment was holy, thought Jacob, then every step that has brought me here is sacred.

He imagined his path as if it was the current of a river. 

As he stared into the flow, he saw the seemingly unending line of moments given to him.  Then like a man marking a trail, he began to put his prayers between the moments, making the common profound by pausing.  

Using prayer to tie knots in time, Jacob isolated the details that would pass before others as a stream of events.

In this way Jacob secured the moments in is life, returned their individuality, allowed the luster of each of them to be observed, and appreciated and saved, transformed his moment into a string of pearls. (p. 43-44)

“The way to discover what is of value in life is by taking time to treasure the moments.” (p.49)


I pray for Jacob’s wisdom on these long days.

Sometimes, during these long days, I am tempted to mentally complain at the passing of moments with seemingly no purpose.  I want more.   More to do. I want people to see.

                                                                        

Jacob’s imagination, about his lonely moments on a lonely path into the future of the unknown.  Helped to make his time move forward with substance and meaning.   He used his moments as time for prayer; and possibility.  

I am thinking this morning that imagination brings abundance to our lives, if we are paying attention.