“’My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted,’ Henri Nouwen said near the end of his life, ‘until I discovered the interruptions were my work.’” (Buchanan, Mark. The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath. Nashville: W Publishing Group, 2006, p. 79.)
Buchanan gets to the heart of one of our most basic struggles in our journey with God: the issue of agenda. When I am strongly attached to my plans and my program, I may judge divine interventions as interruptions.
Think of your experiences of feeling interrupted by someone recently. How might that have been a door opened by God for you to “live Jesus” with that? Think and talk with God about this…
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