Signs and wonders... no clutter please

...and they were constantly seeking signs and wonders...

That describes some of the people in Jesus' day. But sometimes I wonder if that is not my mentality..seeking signs and wonders rather than his presence.

I'm sitting here typing this. Several people got stabbed and shot this weekend at the Notting Hill carnival. Its almost become a norm now, another viscious stabbing, another shooting... so ordinary and normal that the news can't even broadcast every single incident- too many of them.

Insecurity and fear and God-shunning behaviour is all around and just when you think nothing else can shock you or turn your stomach..here it comes again...that sick feeling that so often we all search after the meaningless and absaloutely unnecessary.

Things we think we need, people we crave attention and acalade from, material possessions which strangle our integrity and spiritual balance... Every now and again it hits me again that my soul needs to be decluttered and things re-assessed. Its easy to get cluttered up and drowned in the self-ideals and dreams we think will make us happy or respected or whatever else we crave deeply.

Bang bang bang... three shots ended someones life, just like that. No explanation...just three shots ended someone's life. If I were to be the victim of those three shots, would I give up my last breaths knowing that my life was de-cluttered? Would I cry and quiver out of the knowledge that my life was piled up with the unnecessary and irrelevant?

God, no one knows their time to leave. But when mine comes, I really wanna be de-cluttered...so please begin the process right now, that way I know that if there are any surprises, tradgedies, unexpected turns....there will still be one certainty

An eternal life of wonder and exploration with You...
That makes everything tradgic and sorrowful...well bearable