Sunday looming

I've found my entry point for Sunday's sermon. Usually I only need the start and the rest unfolds... sometimes it is a thought, sometimes and image, sometimes a quote...

“…transcendence cannot be forced upon us. It doesn’t yell, doesn’t announce its presence with a bullhorn, doesn’t advertise itself on roadside billboards. There is nothing bullying about transcendence.
What it requires is noticing. Witnesses to transcendence don’t create transcendence. The transcendence is already here, or there. But in our hurry to get someplace else, we miss it. There is always more than meets the human eye. We miss a lot. We need friends who will grab us by the shirttails, turn us around, and show us what we just now missed in our hurry to get across the street on the way to the bank. We need friends who will tap us on the shoulder, interrupting our non-stop commentary on the talk of the town, so that we can hear the truth. We need witnesses to transcendence. Writers. Angels. [and Preachers!] We stop, we look, we listen.”
Eugene Peterson in Subversive Spirituality Eerdmans 1997 p42

I added the 'and preachers' but in the sermon I might also add 'and Christians' - a bit of salt and light.

The text is Acts 10 - the Spirit calling the early church through Peter to cross the lines and see the bigger picture, the ministry of God to all people, even Gentiles! One of the ways we might cross the lines in our community could be through pointing to the transcendence at work in the everyday of people's lives. How might we be more attentive to the transcendence?