“What do I do for 300 for Friday?” I asked Nancy.

She walked into my office from her desk in the family room.

“Spring,” she said. “Green grass. The verse I shared on Facebook today.”

Nancy has put Bible verses in emails to a small group of friends or to family. As she’s reading every morning, she sometimes notices something and shares that.

For this season, she’s sometimes putting a sentence or two on Facebook.

Today it was “The Lord of Hosts says this: ‘Think carefully about your ways.’” from Haggai 1:7. It’s part of a conversation that God was having with Haggai, one of the prophets. God says, “Here’s what people are saying.” And then God says, “Think carefully about your ways.”

Often when we hear statements like that from God, we point at the person next to us. We say, “God wants you to think about what you are doing.” Mostly because we don’t like what they are doing.

But it’s an invitation from God to Haggai, and from God to us. “Think careful about your ways.”

And when we were sitting on the sofa reading this morning and she read those words, she said, “Is that okay to share?” She wasn’t seeking permission. She was thinking careful about her ways. Is this going to be helpful on Facebook? Is this going to be helpful for my friends?

I could write about spring and green grass, I suppose. There is a little green visible outside our windows. I could write about the verse. But I’d rather write about the conversation, the interaction, the interdependence.

Right now, she’s practicing the piano for when the group she’s part of is at a nursing home this afternoon. This post is written to the tune of “MacNamara’s Band.”

Sometimes our ways are actually just living. Together.

Happy Friday.