Now it might just look like a bolt - but of course that would not make a very exciting Christmas present. This is in fact a magnetic geocache. It unscrews to reveal a hidden log book inside.
What is it for? The is a geocache for me to hide somewhere - as I mentioned it is magnetic - for others to find and log their visit. There are millions of geocaches hidden all over the planet - there are about 50 hidden within 2 miles of the church. But most people do not know they are there and so they just walk by day after day. But for those who geocache these things are there waiting to be found.
[If you want to find out a bit more about geocaching read this post].
I'm sure that lots of us walk around every day and we miss so much simply because we're not looking for it, or because we're going too fast, or because we're being distracted by something else. And I expect that lots of us miss the things that God is doing.
So maybe in 2013 we need to slow down a bit and keep our eyes open a little more and be on the look out for what God is doing. This may simply be something incredible or beautiful in creation - a spider's web covered in dew on your walk to school in the morning. Something that just causes us to pause - to say 'wow' - and to thank God for his creation.
