I read Genesis 28 this morning before getting ready to leave. In verse 16 Jacob says: ‘Surely the Lord is in this place and I wasn’t even aware of it.’

It just strikes me from this that our daily life can be so, well, errr ‘normal’ that we fail to notice that God is there. Our ideas of heaven can be so mystical that we fail to realise that if God is with us, then we can reach out and touch heaven in the situation that we are in. The Kingdom of God is near!

For me, going to Weymouth is never easy. The relationship between myself and my mum is not great and really never has been. The fault lies more with me than it does with my mum, but I quite often need to use the inhaler a lot more just due to the stress of approaching my mums house. Going today with just the children and no sarah to bail me out will be interesting.

Can it be true, though, that God is there? Can he have been in that house all along and I have just failed to recognise him? It’s not so much as a fail to recognise, more of not even thinking to look for him there.

Today I am going to go with an attitude of ‘looking for the sacred in the everyday’. I heard a speaker say last year that if you do not look or expect God’s blessing than you do not notice and receive it. Well, I’m going to try and keep looking!