In the iconic 1995 movie While You Were Sleeping, main character Lucy Moderatz sits day by day in her little booth accepting elevated train tokens on a cold Chicago platform. At night, she returns to a tiny apartment she shares with her cat. To endure the bitter cold, she wears an enormous wool coat that belonged to her late father.
And in the coat pocket, she always carried her passport for when she might need to go somewhere like Italy at a moment's notice, a passport without anything stamped in it, just waiting for a someday.
A passport does not take us anywhere but is a document that reveals who we are and where we belong.
Because our citizenship is in heaven...(Philippians 3. 20), we can go differently into the day and into the fray. God invites us to "Follow Me." Even into these hours right ahead of us, may we ask Him to order our day, guide our steps, direct our thoughts, and align our hearts with His.
It is not just where we go, but how we live right where God has landed us. Like Lucy, we hold onto that passport instead of responding to it. In God's eyes, there is no distinction between the familiar and the foreign, secular and the sacred, acquaintance and stranger, but imprinted only in what is faithful.
Jesus gives us more than a passport to see places, but a mandate to "Go into all the world," loving people to Him, Wherever, however, whatever, and among whomever. Not just someday, but this day.
As Dr. Seuss points out, "Oh, the places you'll go."
Where would that be? Be found in Him. (Philippians 3.9)
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