The banana of trust

'There is no force on earth more powerful than love. If we don't get anything else right - let's be loving.' - Nancy Beach, News Girls Conference 2012

I serve a God of small things. A God who is to be found in every corner of my world - every nook and cranny. More, perhaps, because He knows how much I delight in finding Him there, though I do like to think Father takes pleasure in our delight too (after all, which Father wouldn’t).

The thing that makes this God all the more beautiful, is that He is also to be found in the majestically enormous – for He knows that sometimes He needs to speak loudly; He knows that sometimes we just don't stop along the way to examine the daisies.

Last weekend was one in which I found God in the small things: Ingrid opened the News Girls Conference by mentioning her sense of Father wanting to dance with us (that’s one of my words for the year); Nancy emphasized how Christ longs for us to flourish (that’s the word Alta painted for me during February); and she touched on finding our unique mission and guarding our hearts (exactly what He’s been nudging me about for the past couple of weeks).

Just when I thought that these - amongst others - were by far too beautiful a confirmation of what He is highlighting and underlining for this part of my journey, we went for lunch ...

... and when I opened my brown paper bag and discovered the word ‘trust’ written on my banana, my spirit almost laughed out loud, for at that moment the inside of me knew what it meant to dance. 

There are too many News Girls nuggets to commit to a single blog entry but the greatest, perhaps, is the reassurance that He is a God who knows each of us by name. He is a God who is big enough – and small enough – to take care of everything. He can be trusted with my one and only life ... even though I still sometimes wonder if I can trust myself with it (or at least, the decisions that living it requires of me).

And the most beautiful part of the weekend, to me, was the encouragement to follow our God in doing what He does best - loving.