Capturing those moments is like catching a quick toss of an apple your spouse playfully made to you across the kitchen. You weren’t expecting it, but your open senses enabled you both to catch the apple and feel a sense of joyful connection with your spouse, who made the throw.
When those moments or reminders aren’t so obvious we have a harder time realizing they exist—like the bar of soap I always drop at least once a day. If it’s something that always happens we just get used to it, right? What if we always caught the soap, no matter where we dropped it? It happened to me at the end of a day filled with bad political news, business stress, and weight on my shoulders. A quick shower before moving on to the next task was interrupted by not one, not two, but three spectacular catches of the soap that should have slipped through. Honestly, there were two of those behind-the-back hand grabs that made me laugh. I laughed because it hit me that God was having a little fun with me, reminding me not to let moments slip away but to continue to try to catch them as best as I could.
I could never repeat the entertaining catches I made of the soap I dropped three times that day. But I will always be grateful for the subtle reminder that if I pay attention and if I am ready to accept them, there are many opportunities to catch God’s signs of hope and not let them slip away.