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Good morning.

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With over a week of the New Year gone, for many of us life is getting back to normal. And while there's nothing wrong with that, the everyday can feel a little drab. Yet the founder of the Iona Community, George MacLeod, spoke about finding the glory in the grey, reminding us that it was in the mundane moments that goodness and God were to be discovered.听

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That maybe easy to experience in a sunset or candlelit church but it's more difficult head down, trudging to work through drizzle. Harder still, if there's been little reason for celebration and no resources to lift one day above the others. Yet the gospel writer John reminds us that all things were made through Christ and there is nothing in the world that was made without him. If that is true then God can be found in everyone, in every place and in all things.

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Of course discovering God in the boring parts of life is easier said than done. There's some truth in that apocryphal folk tale about a country boy who visited a friend in the city.

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The streets were filled with people chatting on their phones, car horns and police sirens. Then the country boy said, 鈥淚 can hear a cricket.鈥�

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His host thought that was impossible with all the urban noise. But his visitor insisted 听and walking to a nearby bush found where the little insect was chirping to himself. 听

鈥淭hat鈥檚 incredible,鈥� said the city chap . 鈥淵ou must have super-human ears.鈥�

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鈥淣o.鈥� said the country boy, as he dropped some coins onto the pavement and many people turned to see if the money might be theirs.

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So much depends on what we've already chosen to hear or see amidst the grey of life 听听

God of unending wonder听

help us today

wherever we may be

to see you in unexpected faces

and hear you in unexpected places

and discover there the glory of God for our lives.听 Amen