It was exciting today to be able to catch up with Hugh from Greenwich YFC and I’m looking forward to joining him again on Friday as we interview for a senior youth worker.

After we had chatted about mission, London, young people etc. we wandered off for lunch in a cafe we quite often go into. Being a creature of habit I ordered my black coffee and chicken and avocado ciabatta (it’s a hard life!) and there was something different.

This was the first time we had been in this cafe with no smoking signs displayed. No smokers in the cafe. No ash trays on the table. There was a noticeable difference. The place had not really been smokey in the past – at least not noticeably – but it was obvious that it was now smoke free.

It strikes me that a relationship with Jesus can be like this. WE can survive without joining on the journey with him, we can exist without inviting his comment upon our life, and we start to ‘not notice’ the presence of Jesus. Sometimes it takes a fresh experience, like new fresh smokeless air, to wake us up to what we had been missing.

I like to look for God in what I experience in ‘the everyday’ – today I found God in what I did not experience – how cool is God!