Even though I usually publish the Lifeline Friday posts just to Facebook, this one is a little longer and I want to share it on the website too.

While I was running errands yesterday, I turned the radio on for the first time in weeks as I usually listen to CDs (yes, I’m old school). I turned it on just as a new song started…and from the very first note I realized it was Blessed Be Your Name by Tree63.

In case you missed it, that is the song that I referenced in this week’s blog post. I wrote about it in 2014 for what turned into the first part of this week’s blog post – about God’s presence – and here God was, showing up two days later in a song that was first released in 2003!

That’s 18 years ago, folks! 18-year-old songs don’t get played regularly on the radio anymore. I just happened to turn on the radio, a rarity these days, as the DJ just happened to play an old song that I just happened to write about six years ago and then again two days ago.

I read a devotional email Wednesday night from the Center for Action and Contemplation titled, “The Great Chain of Being.” The email linked to a post by Fr. Richard Rohr and discussed “the inherent sacrality of all things—no exceptions.”1

We either believe God is in everything or we are acting as if He is in nothing.

I believe God showed up yesterday in a song on the radio for me.

“I am here, Carrie.”

How did God show up for you today?

Either we acknowledge that God is in all things, or we have lost the basis for seeing God in anything.

Fr. Richard Rohr, “The Great Chain of Being”

1“The Great Chain of Being,” Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Fr. Richard Rohr, The Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org