Mundane Moment

MUNDANE MOMENT “Be still and know that I am….” From Psalm 46, verse 5 On a silver winter night I sat in the downstairs bathroom reading Roman history (chasing Germans across the Rhine), waiting for my laxative to work Engrossed for a while, sure I was being watched, I looked straight ahead into the large vertical mirror that made my location and my business seem almost public, saw the three-over-three arts and crafts windows where through the upper right-hand pane was a full silver moon staring patiently over my head like a long-time friend and mentor letting an awkward moment pass before announcing his presence I turned out the light and the hovering moon, like a man with dangerous skills switching from a game to really serious business, suddenly became big, solving angles and lenses of windows and mirrors to enter my space, fill up the small room of porcelain and human, silence and book, giving enough light for me to say later that I’d been seen and been met, been approached and caressed at a most mundane moment by the presence of God!