Sunday: Turned Aside to See

 Exodus 3:1-4: 

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law... and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.  He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, "I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned." When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am."  

Moses could have gone on, not looked, not noticed. But he was the type that noticed, and took time to see things that might not have been on his daily agenda.  "When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see..." It reminds me of poetry and poets and how sometimes when I walk in the city I see things I wouldn't see otherwise.  

It also makes me think of how when my husband and I bird-watch, I think God shows us birds sometimes. We'll be out trying to catch tiny warblers in the binoculars when all of a sudden a black-throated green will hop out of a bush right in front of us -- so close we could touch it.  

[Photo: Chicago door]