I have had two experiences lately that have led me to a conclusion. One experience was reading through the book of Numbers. I originally wanted to read Numbers to read around the passages that talk about Caleb. I wanted to get the full context for those stories. Then the other experience was reading the journal of my Great Grandfather. It was from the time when he was starting a church in Berkley Michigan. The journal was from the first couple years of the church. It started as a Sunday School in 1919 and then became an official church a couple years later. ??The conclusion I came to is there is something holy about recording the events of our life.

Numbers has a few stories here and there of the Israelites but for the most part it is history and the "boring" things that most people skip over. There are all the instructions about sacrifices, what to do if this certain thing happens, how many men there were in each tribe who were over 20 years of age, and other things that make for incredible teaching series.

The journal included many mundane details to some. But for me it was a rich experience. It was so enriching to see that a lot of the same things I am doing to build this new church he was doing nearly a century ago. There are details about the weather for a given day, what people he visited in a day, what items they received from people, and records of what was talked about at a given service. These were all mundane details that meant so much to me. I saw how he relied on God and his love for Jesus and people. His relationships seemed so deep. I have heard from many people about his life and his incredibly large impact on their life.

I think there is something holy in the things we see as mundane. Those mundane things are part of history they are part of God's plan. When we focus on these details of life we are bringing into focus part of God's plan for human history be it a very small part of that plan.