Dreaming about providence and whether mice and men have second tries.
Maybe we’ve been living with our eyes half open, maybe were bent and broken.
We were meant to live for so much more, have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside, somewhere we live inside.
–Verse 2 and chorus of “Meant to Live”, the opening song from the 2007 Switchfoot record: A Beautiful Letdown
Welcome to Living Stones Unearthed.
I have thought of creating a site for some time and after the confusion of 2020, I was drawn to the following passage from 1st Peter.
“So keep coming to him who is the Living Stone-though he was rejected and discarded by men but chosen by God and is priceless in God’s sight. Come and be his living stones who are continually being assembled into a sanctuary for God. For now you serve as holy priests, offering up spiritual sacrifices that he readily accepts through Jesus Christ.”
-1 Peter 2: 4-5
Existing and “just getting by” are not living. I have wasted a fair amount of time doing both and found myself in the same spot trying to make sense of all that’s been happening. As I read the truth above, I began to realize that more than ever it was time to “come and be”, take risks, step out, and engage the world around me.
Cindi and I recently took a trip to Grand Rapids, Ohio, a small town with big things to do that sits next to the Maumee River. As we walked along the river in the afternoon, a light rain began to fall. Fearing a downpour might follow we sought shelter and what we found at first looked like the picture definition of ordinary. Worn wooden beams sat supporting an equally worn roof, picnic tables scattered beneath it. As we sat at one of the picnic tables to wait out the rain, our minds wandered and our gazes followed, bringing our attention to something that had initially escaped us. There, in the span of the wood covering was beautiful stained glass.
In the midst of what at first glance was ordinary, was the extraordinary.
Life is going on constantly, right in front of us. Sometimes we don’t know where to look or we have been trained by disappointment, doubt, and failure not to see it. Maybe we are just afraid.
My purpose for this site is to encourage connection and re-connection for those who “see” things differently through music, art, writing, dreams and most importantly the day to day routine. It is possible to live beyond.
Be aware, be intentional, be purposeful. Switchfoot said it best.
We were meant to live.
“He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, you are badly mistaken” – Mark 12:27
I love this Tim… even in the mundane I can see Him! He is everywhere and our everything! He doesn’t just give us an endless bounty of beauty but an endless supply of grace and mercy! In Him we live and move and have our being!! I, for one, am eternally grateful!! Thank You Tim for your insight! ❤️ Betty
Awesome Tim. What a great word!!
Let me piggy back a little bit about your main theme that is we were meant to live. Not just live but to live in Christ. As Christians we are not to just live and stay the same, but live and grow.
To me living is growing. I didn’t become a Christian to become perfect or to live a perfect life. I became a Christian to live and grow in the living Stone!
Amen!
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?” Job 12:7-9
There is a story from a book I read Called THE WALK, {I don’t remember the author}, about an experiment. A very famous violinist, was playing one of the most beautiful and dificult pieces on a million dollar stradivaris standing in the subway of New York and no one noticed or stopped to listen.