June 14, 2024
“In him we live and move and have our being.” As some of your poets have said, “We are his offspring.” ~ Acts 17:28NRSV
The first two weeks of June are a blur. We had plans to travel to Madrid with our son, Seth’s family for a week. We canceled those plans so we could attend the celebration of life for my father-in-law in Mississippi.
Because we’d missed vacation time, when we returned from Mississippi we escaped to Williamsburg for 2 nights.
Upon our return to Woodstock, I texted a friend that I was “safely him.” I meant to type “safely home.” I was in a hurry and didn’t catch the typo. My friend pointed it out in her response, “I believe in Him all things are safe.” Who knew that even in a typo, God’s presence can be discerned? Apparently Paul did!
The apostle Paul was in Athens, a city full of images of the Greek gods. He was invited to speak to the people at the Areopagus, just down the hill from the Acropolis, where the temple to Athena was situated. He said, “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.” Then he quoted two of their popular philosophers, Epimedes and Aratus, “‘In him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’”
God is the One in whom we live and move and have our being. Even in jet-lagged me.
Safely home, no matter where we go. ~ Anne
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