If You Give a Me a Moment – I’ll Marvel

Even I, and especially I, marvel at the variety of activities my life can participate in… Yesterday was volunteering with work, past weekend was camping, there’s regular work etc, Friday a workshop and baseball game, and the weekend is hopefully a trip up to see my family… I marvel at the moments… I had to get online groceries for my busy schedule, but hey used a great coupon! Mostly I have to just sit here and be thankful. A moment in the moment of thankfulness.

“If You Give a Moose a Muffin” is a famous children’s book where the moose asks for more and more, and it goes hilariously awry… I gave a mouse a tomato at the garden yesterday, and nothing went awry, we both took in the moment, mouse munching and me marveling. “If you give a ME a MOMENT, I will MARVEL” – that could be the story of my life. I marvel… God is mindful to fill my mind… I best marvel back.

The corn stocks were more than twice as tall as me at the garden – the grandmother of one of my coworkers is amazing and a dreamer and creative influence on this place that over 40 years ago they started as a reclamation of city blocks into gardens – playgrounds – education spots – life-giving locales. The heritage is so very interesting and the ingenuity and insight of the locals is a knowledge base that is lost and lost – like which plants were used to treat ear aches and infections, which were used as food, toothbrushes, industry, and beauty. 

I revisited the garden bed that I “weeded” last year – meaning I took out tons of broken glass as it is next to the fence and the invading outside street world – it was teaming with produce this year. I munched on a mini tomato…  At lunch, I munched on plantains that were freshly pressed and fried – oh yum – and the stew and the dessert…  and I gave a mini tomato to a mini mouse on the compost bin – as if I was giving back the moment to many mice whom I neglected…  Did this mouse notice – no of course not – that is something that we have to marvel at – that life exists and moves on and who notices? Often no one but us and the Lord…  that’s okay… The Lord knows…

Wisdom is a gift of the Holy Spirit God to marvel and move and motivate and you name it – if you give a mouse a tomato – like “if you give a me a marvel” – like “give a creative a canvas” – it is amazing and yet wow when “you give God a garden” – He will bloom it… And that is where we live – in the garden of God’s gift – if we only take a moment to marvel in it…

Thank you Holy Spirit for my marvel… for this garden… and the munching of life…

MMMM…..  Marvel….

Amen

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Psalm 8 NKJV

The Glory of the Lord in Creation
To the Chief Musician. On the instrument of Gath. A Psalm of David.

O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor.

You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, All sheep and oxen – even the beasts of the field, The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!