Curiosity

"I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up."   Exodus 3:3

"Moses and the Burning Bush"   Marc Chagall

It was a normal day: Moses was at work, tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro. A day like any other, but a day when Moses noticed something off in the distance: a bush consumed by flames, yet the bush did not appear to be burning up. Curiosity got the best of him. "Hmm. That's strange. I'll go over there for a closer look." He changed his normal daily routine to turn aside, to look, to go over and to see why the bush was not burning up. An investigative fellow. 

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but curiosity is essential to a life of faith. For when we are open to the unimaginable, when we are curious about the unfathomable, when we stop to investigate the unthinkable?  It is in those places that we will meet God. As Christian people, we know all about responsibility and focused, hard work, but remember that God lives at the margins. When we are myopically focused on that which lies directly in front of us, we can miss God:  God at the periphery reaching out to us, beckoning, whispering, "Come over here. I have need of you."