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\u201cI say to myself \u2018The\xa0Lord\xa0is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.\u2019 The\xa0Lord\xa0is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.\u201d (Lamentations 3:24-25)

Sometimes we forget that God is the center of all life and is present in every moment and in every day.\xa0 Sometimes we forget Him and His love for us and this \u201cforgetfulness\u201d reaches all the way back to the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve chose to do life on their own.\xa0 But God is present in our everyday often in moments where and when we least expect Him.

Last week when I went outside to take out the trash and recycling was one of those moments for me.\xa0 When I went out into my front yard I noticed the birds chirping and the stillness and freshness of the morning air.\xa0 When I came back into the house I was struck by the harsh contrast of my son\u2019s teacher talking on his device as I walked through the living room, mixing and then drowned out by my daughter\u2019s class conversation on her device as I moved into the kitchen.\xa0 I grabbed the recycling and headed back outside, first through one mass of sound, then another, then once I was again outside the contrast was palpable.\xa0 The quietness. The beauty of the moment.\xa0 Bringing to mind for me at that moment Isaiah 30:15 \u201cIn repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.\u201d\xa0 I sat on the porch for a few moments revelling in God, who He is, and the beauty of all that He has made.

But my story doesn\u2019t end there.\xa0 After a few moments, the stillness was broken as my dog pushed through the front door.\xa0 Full of energy, pacing back and forth across the porch, up and down the stairs beside me.\xa0 Don\u2019t I often live life like my springer spaniel?\xa0 Frantically going, doing, trying to be, and forgetting that true life, peace and rest are found in God, in the small, simple moments where for a moment or a few the world stands still and I can see a glimpse of God in the ordinary of life.\xa0 God is my portion.\xa0 My hope is in Him.

Moments like this can happen anywhere.\xa0 God often reveals Himself in the quiet, but also in the hustle, and in the mundane.\xa0 Making dinner, talking to a neighbour, being caught in traffic, caring for a loved one.\xa0 If we let our awareness wander and wonder even briefly, we often catch glimpses of the unexpected, even in something as mundane as taking out the trash.

As we learn to wait on God, we experience His goodness in ways that we may not have otherwise seen or experienced.\xa0 As we seek Him, He will begin to reveal Himself in places that we had never thought to look.\xa0 That is the Spirit of God at work in our lives.

We can rest our hope in this: that the\xa0Lord\xa0is our portion. \xa0He is in those precious moments when we feel at our end, and He is in those moments when we are filled with joy and expectation.\xa0 God completes us.\xa0 It is Him who fills our cup, it is in Him that our hope is found.