I thought about that today. It was a day of repairs. Taking out the trash, weeding the yard and an hour in the dentist chair filling a cavity. Too much dreaming about ice cream!
Phillip Yancy in his book Vanishing Grace takes my day of repairs and my day dreams and gives them a spiritual direction.
"By living out lives of grace in a spoiled environment, we point forward to a time of restoration. One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be actively demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet."
