I was Naked and I didn't Care

Strange title, I know.  But it seemed fitting and inspiring when it popped into my head.

And I must say it was a strange dream I had last night.  Thousands of little sharks, I'm talking thousands all piled up on top of each other, were coming up on shore and I was chopping their heads off with a gas powered saw.  I wasn't petrified, only slightly scared.  And not even scared...just annoyed that I might get bitten.  Later in the same dream, I was walking on shore, going passed the survivors...I was naked...but I didn't care.  I used one hand to cover my, well you know, while the other hand was wildly gesturing as I spoke to everyone.  Then even later, all of the different groups of survivors started coming by.  At first I wanted to hide because I wasn't sure what they were planning; I mean they could be coming after us or something.  But then I saw they were singing, they were joyful and they were all heading in the same direction...  

At that point I got a text which woke me up.

Any who...

I read this really great devotion this morning.  I watched a similar message from a sermon my friend sent me yesterday.

God is at work around us all of the time.  Yes, all of the time.  Even in the not so good times God is working.  While he is working, he is asking us to work with him.  He pursues us, he invites us, he speaks to us and then he works through us.  All the time.  This is happening all of the time all around us.  God is right here with us all of the time.

In the midst of our mess, our pain, our suffering, our sorrow, our troubles, etc, God asks us to do God Sized Things.  It's when we obey that we we show the level of our faith and love for our Lord.  It's when we obey that those God Sized Things happen.  

And it's the next (thing) that is connected to our now.  What we are supposed to be doing next is connected to what is going on with us now.

I'm in the middle of a mess right now.  I'm into the second week of daily migraines.  And, no, that wouldn't be a migraine a day.  That would be more than one migraine at different times throughout the day on a daily basis.  Yup.  Every day.  For over a week.

So, what  do you think I've been doing?  I've been trying to figure out why.  Why me.  Why suffering.  What does the suffering represent.  

Wrong!  Wrong!  Wrong!

I need to be on the lookout for the God Sized Thing I'm supposed to be involved in!  Oh yay, on the lookout!

Hmmm...the lookout.  On the lookout.  Being on the lookout.

So I thought about it.  What is being on the lookout?  What does being on the lookout entail?  

Here are the are the things that pop in my mind when I think about being on the lookout - Vulnerability, complete honesty, transparency, naked truth...

I was naked and didn't care...