All of life is grace

With all the stress of school, tests, jobs, parties, friends and church, we sometimes forget that God is present in the midst of all this. Luckily, whether we're aware or unaware of him, God is with us. We just don't always recognize God when we see him. There's a lot to distract us, and a lot that makes us forget who we are (and whose we are).

The quote below is by Frederick Buechner, a fantastic writer and Presbyterian preacher from Vermont. Read it, meditate on it, and comment. How do you forget God's presence? How can we listen to our lives in order to see God?

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

"I discovered that if you keep your eye peeled to it and your ears open, if you really pay attention to it, even such a limited and limiting life as the one I was living on Rupert Mountain opened up extraordinary vistas. Taking your children to school and kissing your wife goodbye. Eating lunch with a friend. Trying to do a decent day's work. Hearing the rain patter against the window. There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize him or not recognize him, but all the more fascinatingly because of that, all the more compellingly and hauntingly. If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace."