Remember when you were a kid and you spent all afternoon setting up every domino you could find throughout your house, just so you could have the satisfaction of knocking them all over and watching a seemingly endless trail of dominoes fall? ….Okay, maybe that was only me. But when I did that, I noticed that whenever someone walked around in the house, it would make the floor vibrate, and often that vibration would be enough to knock down a domino, and before I knew it, half my line would be demolished. Pretty soon, I would forbid my entire family from moving at all, so I could finish setting up my miles of dominoes. When I had to move, I would take the lightest steps possible and I barely allowed myself to breathe.
Dominoes are a wonderful (and I realize, overused) metaphor for life. If you knock over one domino, they all fall down. But people don’t often think about walking near the line of dominoes. That can make them fall down, as well.
We talk a lot in class about intentionality, and I am beginning to realize just how crucially important it is. We can’t just be intentional about our relationships with new people. We have to be intentional about everything while living a missional life. We have to realize that even making loud noises in the general vicinity can knock over the line of dominoes.
Living with that much intentionality can seem daunting and difficult. Luckily, when it comes down to the actual moment of falling dominoes, the Holy Spirit has to be the one to tap the first one, and He knows what He is doing.
-Diana
I’d never thought about it that way before, but it makes sense. We’re always taught to live for Christ holistically, and part of living for Christ is being intentional.
I like what you said, and it’s kind of scary at the same time. If one miss-move of mine, one botched interaction with someone when I was having a bad day, can knock down a line of dominoes that someone has been carefully building for a long time, then I better be careful the way I act around people! It’s a good reminder that I am a witness of Christ all the time, not just when I feel like it or want to be.