Under Spiritual Construction

I didn't intentionally skip the "what's under spiritual construction?" - it just weighed heavily as to how I was going to explicate the whole conundrum tossed about currently in my head. Still I can't really explain...just some shocking reading material that forced me to admit I am going about it all wrong...judging others for judging others - now that really makes sense, doesn't it? (sense the sarcasm?)

If this all seems an enigma it is probably because it is...so instead, I am just going to focus on where I DO see God at work...

Heard of the "fishes and loaves" story? Yep, the one where a young boy has only 5 small barley loaves and 2 teeny fish and they manage to feed 5000 people? (John 6:1-12) An inexplicable-by-our-worldly-standards miracle. And yet a miracle that we experience all the time in our lives here at the McDougall residence. How does a tube of toothpaste, used daily by my husband (because I use plain baking soda and the kids have their special fluoride-free paste), last an entire year? How else but a miracle? A container of shampoo, bought in bulk size and meant for a Christmas stocking stuffer at a family event we didn't end up attending two years ago, still offering up its bounty? This is one of the areas where I see God at work...

We go grocery shopping about once a month and spend perhaps $150 but we are never hungry and the cupboards, though bare by many standards, are never empty.

When we needed winter boots for Gavin's quickly-growing feet, they showed up (barely after the thought of the need was contrived)...we had just about finished an email to family containing Rebekah's Christmas list involving 'church shoes, pretty please', and what is mysteriously hanging on our door before the "send" button has been pressed?

For anyone who hasn't guessed (or hasn't seen me in stores, caressing the clothing), I am a very visual, tactile person. God romances me through nature...at this time of year those pea-green crocuses and friends are diligently heaving their heads above earth, and emerald buds are starting to colour the trees, and I am in ocular rapture...

Those are just a few of the ways God is being experienced in this little corner of the world...what about in YOUR corner of the world? (Or your "non-angular nook" if jagged corners are bothersome for you?)