Thread by @brassoteach

We’ve been looking at some of Jesus’ miracles in school over the past few weeks and I’ve noticed something I hadn’t seen before..

#ReflectingInTheQuiet

Over 50% of the miracles Jesus carried out were born out of interruptions to his plans.

He’s going somewhere. He’s got something to do. He’s meeting with someone.

But he stops anyway.

The blind man crying out for mercy.

The woman who grabbed his clothes.

The friends lowering the paralysed man through the roof.

These weren’t in his diary, they weren’t appointments he had mapped out.

Yet he embraced the interruptions.

I don’t know about you, but I find when things don’t go to plan I’m anxious, frustrated & keen to get back on track.

But perhaps it’s not just the power of the miracles & the people involved we can learn from, but Jesus’ pace too.

Perhaps too often I’m sticking to my agenda.

Perhaps too often I’m sticking to my plans.

Perhaps too often I’m pretending that I’m the one who is truly in charge of my calendar.

In his book ‘Three Mile an Hour God’ Kosuke Koyama says that love has a different speed to the speed our lives operate at today- a 3mph speed.

‘It is the speed we we walk and the speed the love of God walks.’

I’ve been really challenged since noticing this pattern to remember whose really in charge of my diary.

Do I make space for God on a Sunday morning, then feel his presence is just an inconvenience to the rest of my week?

I’m using Lent as a chance to try and embrace the interruptions not as inconvenience but as opportunity.

And perhaps each time a plan doesn’t work out how I expect, I’m being gently challenged to remember the One whose plan I should trust in.

#ReflectingInTheQuiet