Yesterday, I ran across this new book of devotions for Lent on Facebook through the Ave Maria Press page. Joyce Rupp is one of my favorite authors and I have not read one of her books in awhile so I decided to look it up.
Though I really try to shop small businesses vs large ones like Amazon, there are sometimes little things Amazon offers that makes it easier and sometimes even advantageous to shop through them. For one, they offer free Kindle samples, so you can read a bit of the book before you buy it. That is what I did with this new book, Jesus Friend of My Soul by Joyce Rupp.
In the Kindle sample of Jesus, Friend of My Soul, Rupp refers to a book by John O’Donohue titled Walking in Wonder.
That got me all excited because I am a big fan of John O’Donohue’s writings and my word for this year is “wonder.” (Search my other posts tagged YearlyWord if you do not know about that practice.)
So, I looked the book up on Amazon only to find I had already purchased the book in November of 2018. (Another perk Amazon gives you so you do not order a book you already purchased from them.) The cover did not even look that familiar to me. I checked my book shelf and sure enough, there it was. It could not have walked down their by itself, so I must of put it there, though I do not usually put books on the bookshelf until I have already read them.
This morning when I looked at the coffee table in front of me, the focus word I put on my planner for this week caught my eye. My thought when I wrote down the word “walk” was that I wanted to get on the treadmill and walk daily, and maybe even outside if the weather allowed.
The prompt for this week in the Facebook Living Your Word of the Year 2020 group, the prompt for our journals this week was to journal one of the top was you wanted to grow by having a word for the year. In my journal I wrote “yield to wonder.”
Hmm…? I think I will just have to walk and see what this all might teach me. Stop, Look, and Listen? Do you ever notice little connections like this? Do you ever wonder if it is God saying something to you somehow? Maybe it is simply little taps on our shoulder that God makes to show us God is with us. How can that not make you smile. 🙂
