God moments

Mick sent me a joke this morning which I quite enjoyed and got me thinking. (Yes, a rare thing for a Friday!)

A couple had two little boys, ages 8 and 10, who were excessively mischievous. They were always getting into trouble and their parents knew that, if any mischief occurred in their town, their sons were probably involved.

They boys' mother heard that a clergyman in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak with her boys. The clergyman agreed, but asked to see them individually. So the mother sent her 8-year-old first, in the morning, with the older boy to see the clergyman in the afternoon.

The clergyman, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him sternly, "Where is God?”

They boy's mouth dropped open, but he made no response, sitting there with his mouth hanging open, wide-eyed. So the clergyman repeated the question in an even sterner tone, "Where is God!!?" Again the boy made no attempt to answer. So the clergyman raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face and bellowed, "WHERE IS GOD!?"

The boy screamed and bolted from the room, ran directly home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him. When his older brother found him in the closet, he asked, "What happened?"

The youngest brother gasped for breath and replied, "We are in BIG trouble this time dude. God is missing and they think WE did it!"

So that got me thinking about where God is in NCYC09. Yes I hope he or she is there in the Worships, Whole Convention Gatherings, Public Rally, Bible Studies, Electives, Community times, Submersions, Small Group time etc. In fact I think that God will be in those things and we'll see this if we make the time and space for her/him. But for me the more exciting possibilities are dinner times, lunches, friendships, jokes, bus transfers. The unexpected God moments.

I've often felt my 'God moments' during conversations with the people I meet an NCYCs. Sometimes these are conversations with people who I don't ever see again, but they're still precious moments.

So I wonder where others have had these God moments?