I mentioned in Monday’s Catch how the Grand Canyon reveals its secrets over time. It is like a palette upon which God paints His presence every day as the Master Artist. The rocks and cliffs may be static, but the light that plays on them is ever changing — ever creating with new mixtures of cloud, snow, rain and the arcing sun. I also imagined what it would be like to spend a whole day in one spot doing nothing but watching the sun rise and set and everything in-between.

Then Marti questioned me as to why we need to go to the Grand Canyon to do this. Why not do this where we are, today? It’s a legitimate question, and an inspiring one at that. Not that we can sit down all day and do nothing but watch for the hand of God, but imagine your spirit doing that. Imagine your spirit watching for the hand of God all day long while you’re doing everything else, and imagine tuning into your spirit throughout the day and in that way entering into God’s activity where you are — not on the rim of the Grand Canyon, but in the office, on the phone, at the laundromat, in your car, in the classroom. What picture is He painting today around you and through you from sun up to sun down? It’s a consciousness that is going on while we are doing everything else we are doing — a God-consciousness if you will. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” is a kind of earthly God-consciousness that I believe can be cultivated as we become sensitive to His Spirit. His Spirit talking to our spirit. Spirits bearing witness. This is the way God gets His will done on earth — through us praying for it, seeking it and doing it.

Imagine the constant communion the earthly Jesus would have had with the Father for Him to be able to say He was doing nothing on His own initiative, but only as the Father directs Him. He was always listening for His Father. He and the Father were (are) one. In this He is our model. Perhaps imagining yourself on the rim of the Grand Canyon all day might be a way of gaining access into God’s activity in the world. What is being illuminated? What is in the shadows? Where is He going? What is He doing? And most importantly: What does He want me to do?