Through the lens of Young married
The burning bush
Moses wasn’t on a mountaintop when the bush appeared. He was tending sheep. He tended sheep — for forty years, the same sheep, in the same desert, with the same family. And one ordinary day, the ground caught fire.
Most marriages are looking for God in the retreat — the conference, the date night, the once-a-year breakthrough. Exodus 3 says He shows up in the flock. In the kitchen. On the commute. In the same conversation you keep having about the same kid. Take off your sandals. This ground is holy.
The marriage that learns to recognize holy ground in the ordinary is the marriage that finds God most often. He is in the mundane. The dirty dishes are an altar. The ride to school is sacred space. He has been near the whole time. You just have not been looking up.
One small thing this week: pick one ordinary repeated moment in your week with your spouse — making coffee, putting the kids to bed, the drive home — and treat it as holy ground. Tell your spouse why. Take off your sandals there together.