God is in every cell, every person, and every activity. Whether it feels like it or not. God is creating. With yarn and needles, hiccups [my emphasis added], unraveling, do-overs, a rhythm, and individual stitches, God is making something new. -- Dr. Monica Coleman, Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, May 24, 2023
As I have been noting of late...and am finding more and more...it is the little things that speak most clearly of God's personal care and concern for me. Take, for instance, the self-emphasized word hiccups.
Hiccups have been the bane of my life as far back as I can remember. Just recently, my high school friend mentioned, when they came again, how they had plagued me back then.
This is important to me because I talk to my God when they come...and I do not speak softly. In my most I-have-had-it voice, I call, OK, Lord...here they are again...the hiccups! You've got the power...use it! What's your hold-up? Shut 'em down already!
The glorious punchline...they stop. Obviously not forever but nine times out of ten until they come again...which is close enough to perfect for me.
I'd rather keep the hiccups, knowing them to be God's will, God's way, than be freed from them by my own self-determination. So, in the last year or two, I've been adding: If you have something for me to learn from these hiccups, open my ears that I may hear, open my eyes that I may see, open me to do your will, your way.
I do not doubt more has already been revealed...I'm just slow on the uptake. Which, God knows, works best for me.
But I promise...I was thrilled from my toes to my nose when I saw "hiccups" mentioned as a thing of God's creating.
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