A Reminder from a Spider

   There is a prayer at the end of the Moravian Daily Reading, this one for today:

"O Holy Spirit, you are our light during the day and at night. We thank you for this day. Help us to make the most of it. Help us to let our light shine so that others may see you in us in work or at play. Amen"

   I don't think too much on the unseen world that is out there. I give lip service to the idea, deep down I know that there is more to life than what I can see, but I don't dwell on it. There is a lot that happens that I can't see either with my eyes, or with my mind or even with my heart.

   The Bible talks about spirits, about angels, about demons What am I to make of all that other realm?

   The 3rd person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit fits in here. I did not consciously think about this during my walk this morning. Nor did I consider those other parts of the unseen world, I just walked with my eyes open and looked at what I could see.

   It was not until I got back to the condo and ran my hand across my head, that I realized that I had walked through a spider web that had been spun over the path that I had walked on. I did not see it at the time but there it was, clinging to my hair. How many other things had I not seen, even on this short time outside?

   Just as I do not see the things of the Spirit as they are taking place around me, and not even a physical thing such as the spider web, so it is that my eyes and mind and heart are not even open to things that I do see and just don't recognize.

   As I have prayed many times, God, let me see with my eyes and heart, those things and people that will come into my life, even today, and let me see where I fit into those situations and lives.

   There are reasons as to why those people and things will be in my life today, not just coincidences, and I need to have the heart and will to respond in the way that honors God.

   Help me not to just write all this and then promptly forget it, help it to stick.

   Maybe I should not try so hard to get all that spider's work out of my life, but let it be a reminder of that world that is unseen but real, and to see God's hand in it all.