Remember Where God Met You | Mornings with Mico

Yo, yo, yo people. How we doing today, man? I don't have a mic, so I don't know exactly how the sound quality is going to be, but I was out and about today and just decided to pull over for a minute. I found myself just in a very reflective state of mind, and I'm on the west side of Cincinnati. That's the side of town where majority of my family is from. That's where I was born and hung out here when I was older, but primarily grew up on the east side. But when I came home from prison off my last number, I found myself living on the west side again at my grandmother's house, or my aunt's house. I mean, y'all know how that go. But it just, it seems like since coming home and just walking with God and what that journey has looked like, it's kind of given me this new found like fondness and appreciation just for even just the side of town. Nothing specific about like this side of town, but it's like this is where like I associate this with like a leg of my journey and my faith walk. And so whenever there's an opportunity for me to come to the west side, I just, I do. Because it's for whatever reason, it just never fails. Like every time it brings me back to that same place of like, like look at where I brought you from, right? Like look at, look at where I'm like coming home and not really knowing like what life was going to look like, not really knowing, you know, where I was going, having not plans, having ideas. So like, it's not like I just came home empty handed. I can't have plans, had ideas and nothing just like actually materialized over time the way that I thought it would, which was, which, you know, at this point I'm glad for because clearly God had better plans in store. But this side of town, it just always takes me back to that season of my life. Right. And it wasn't like everything then was just like great. You know what I mean? Like there was some, that was an ambiguous season. That was a stressful season. That was a season, you know, I found myself depressed at times. Season, I just really like, you know, God, what are we doing in life? You know what I mean? Like there were a lot of that, but it was a season where I felt like God was really like drawing me deeper in my roots with him and just in our relationship, strengthening my faith. You know, my faith was weathered in that season and it came out on the other side of that season stronger. So the West side is just synonymous with just that season and that walk and what God was just doing to me then. And so there's just, there's just this, this, this, this posture of just gratitude. And just, there's just this fondness, like I said,

that I have with this side of town because of what it now represents since coming home from the joint. And I don't know right now. And I just kind of felt like I just pulled over. I'm in front of one of my, um, one of my old apartments. Um, and I just, just felt like sitting here for a minute and just kind of just taking a moment and just sitting with God and just, just, just choosing gratitude right now. I don't know what, what that could look like for you, but I just want to take a second and encourage you, man, sis, bro, whatever, whatever that thing is, whatever that place is, whether it's somewhere, a season, a person, whatever it is that just takes you back to that moment of like, um, encountering God and, and, and just whether it's a season in your life that you encounter God or a place or, you know, whatever the case is, but I want to encourage us to like, press into, press into that, lean into like, what, what, what do I have access to that takes me back to like a, a fond place with God, right? Whatever that may be, whether it's a phone call, whether it's something right, whether it's a smell, whether it's something, but there's something I believe we all have, I believe God chooses, you know, different things for different people. Um, I love even times in scriptures where when you would see people having an encounter with God, they would turn that place into like a, um, a memorial, right? Like a monument of sorts where they would build, you know, statues or, you know, place rocks there. Like they would, they would honor that space. This is a space where we encountered the presence of God, or we heard the voice of God and we would name this space, you know, a certain thing or whatever that, that, that, um, that reminds us of that, right? Like so much in scripture, God is remind telling us to be, you know, to, um, remember, you know, what he's done, remember, you know, what I did here, what I did for you or how I showed up or remember this season and, and, and what that was. And I think that it's, it's, it's good for us. It serves us well to be intentional with remembering by, um, even if that's physically placing ourself back in a certain space or among certain people or doing a certain thing, right? Like maybe it was like, you know, I encountered God when I, when I, you know, at this dinner or whatever, you know, and, you know, or maybe God spoke to me in, in, in that space or whatever. And it's like, so that meal, whenever I have this meal or this smell,

it takes me back to that place. Um, this is just one of those things. This is just, this is, like I said, it's an encouragement to tell you, don't just treat that as something normal, like lean into that, make that a reoccurring thing, you know, carve out space, be intentional about that to place yourself back in that posture of just gratitude for that encounter with God, or, um, just recognizing how God sustained you through that season, whatever it is, whatever you have access to, um, choose to, to, to, to, to, be intentional about, about, um, about going to do it or being there or whatever, um, trusting that God is honored in it because that's your heart in it, Lord, I would just want to honor that season. I want to honor the way you sustain me. I want to honor our relationship in this way. Um, and we see, and this isn't just some exclusive to me thing. It's just some random idea that I'm throwing out there. Like you can see this play out in scripture, you know, like there's still, um, there's still even some traditions today in the Jewish faith specifically that I can think of where in certain seasons, I think it's, um, Sukkot where they'll eat a meal really fast or something standing up to honor, you know, how and remind, and that's their way of like telling a story again of how, um, the Jewish had left from Egypt really fast because God was rescuing them from Egypt. Like there's a certain things that people do. Um, and for me coming to the West side, it's just one of those things. So, um, yeah, take this, you know, to the feet of Jesus and, and, and, and ask him, God, Lord, open my eyes, help me to see what are some things that could posture me in deeper gratitude and, um, just can be used as a reminder of just your goodness in my life or whatever that is like, take that prayer to Jesus and ask God to like reveal that thing to you and whatever that is, do it, lean into it.

Don't, don't, um, undervalue it, right? It's, it's good to have things in our life that takes us back to that place that helps us to posture ourselves in gratitude and, um, just valuing God and honoring God. So that's what I wanted to get you out of day. Um, yeah, I'll leave y'all with that. Y'all have a blessed one.