Sometimes A Glimpse

 Sometimes a glimpse emerges that the unseen and the promises of God are after all really real:  "Do not fear.  I am with you."

This week, the entire nation was upended by the impetus to pray in the shocking crisis of 24 year old football player Damar Hamlin.  This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal yesterday morning, January 6: How Damar Hamlin Drove a Nation to Pray.

Well worth a read.  Well worth realizing God is at work in each of us.  Damar is getting better.  But it is not all about Damar, but just a glimpse that God cares about us too.

People prayed.  A lot of people prayed very publicly.  It was as if all the excuses crumbled and the myriad of ways that people explain God away very suddenly didn't make sense anymore.  People were drawn to pray.  

I called on Your name, O LORD,

     from the depths of the pit;

You heard my plea,

    "Do not close Your ear to my cry for Help!"

You came near when I called on you;

    You said, "Do not fear!"

You have taken up my cause, O LORD;

            You have redeemed my life.

                      Lamentations 3. 55-58

As author Wendell Berry says in his novel Jayber Crow:  "...the world, which seemed all of a sudden to have got a lot bigger." 

Sometimes we just need to cry out "Help!"  Sometimes we need to realize that we need help.  Praying allows us to grasp the supernatural, not just in the extraordinary, but acknowledge God's Presence and His faithfulness in the common and ordinary, perhaps even more to witness it in the familiar.  

Sometimes a glimpse to know He is still here.