Teach Me Your Ways, O Lord

Each day gives us the opportunity to learn and to put into practice "the ways of the Lord", as well as for the Lord to reveal something about himself and his ways to us. The lessons might come through our prayer, our reading or in the events, planned and unplanned, the successes, conversations, the people we meet, the laughter, the annoyances, the frustrations, the gains and the losses that fill these 24 hours. It's mainly in "the little things" that we learn. How do we react, for example, when we attempt to extract some crushed ice from the door of our refrigerator and end up with bits of ice all over the kitchen floor; what should have taken a few seconds eats up five minutes as we clean up, check the ice maker and find it overloaded or almost empty? This "project" then makes us late for the next thing we had planned to do. And so goes the day: late, late, late, rush, rush, rush. We realize we need patience, and the humility to accept the "superiority" of the ice-maker. When someone comes with a long tale to bend our ear, that patience and humility can serve both of us well. Who would have suspected that a morning "catastrophe" would have prepared us with a listening ear that would bring solace to someone's agitation or confusion? The ways of the Lord are kindness and constancy toward all, but if we attune ourselves in the simple actions of our day, we become kinder, more consistant, more humble, more like God. Teach me your ways, O Lord.
Bro. Rene