It’s times like that when you feel the panic rising that what you don’t need to hear, is someone like me telling you that what you really need is an hour or two with God… I’m actually covering my ears now so I can’t hear the screams!  Of course you’re saying to yourself, that would be wonderful – if only.

Yet everything we do… and listen to this… no, I mean really take notice of this, everything we do and go through has God’s fingerprints on it. It was Rabbi Harold Kushner who reminded us that that everything God has created is potentially holy. Our task as humans is to uncover that holiness in what seems to be unholy situations. He suggests that when we learn to do this, we’ll have learned to nurture our souls. Of course, it’s easy to see God’s beauty in a beautiful sunrise, or the hills around Crook. But can we learn to find the holiness in seemingly hectic or ugly circumstances, those difficult life lessons, a family tragedy, or a struggle for life?

When our life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday things, then something magical begins to happen. A feeling of peace begins to emerge (remember that first paragraph?). we begin to see nurturing aspects of daily living that were previously hidden to us. when we remember that everything has God’s fingerprints on it, that alone makes it special. And if we remember this spiritual fact while we’re dealing with a couple difficult children or struggling to pay our bills, it just broadens our perspective. It helps us that God also created the person you’re having to deal with or that, despite your struggle to pay your bills, you are truly blessed to have all that you do.

Somewhere, in the back of your mind, try to remember that everything has God’s fingerprints on it. The fact that we can’t see the beauty in something doesn’t mean that it’s not there.

Rather, it might mean that we’re not looking carefully enough. You’d better stop reading now …  the kids are crying, you know, the ones with the fingerprint of God upon them.

(Read Richard Carlson’s Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… and it’s all Small Stuff). 

With God’s blessing,