On a sunny day, a child was happily playing in a playground. After running around with great excitement for a while, the child suddenly noticed a line of ants crawling beneath their feet. Sitting down right there, the child watched the tiny ants moving in a row for quite some time. Then a thought came to mind: “Even such small ants are alive and moving.” “If I, who am bigger than these ants, exist, could it be that I, too, am as small as an ant to someone else?”

For this child, the moment went beyond simple observation of nature—it became a moment of discovering wonder. A scholar of children’s spirituality, David Hay, describes this kind of experience as “spirituality.” He explains that spirituality does not arise only through special education or training, but naturally reveals itself in everyday moments when we pause, feel awe, sense, and recognize our connectedness.

When we think of “deep spirituality,” we often imagine setting aside everything in our daily lives and filling our time solely with prayer and the Word in a retreat center or a quiet room. While such practices are indeed valuable, God’s encounters with us are not confined to specific places. God meets us even in the most ordinary moments of our daily lives.

Romans 1:20 says, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”

As we now enter Holy Week, we often think that we must practice self-denial and meditate on the cross of Jesus. While that is certainly meaningful, I hope that, before anything else, this will be a time to reflect on God’s creation present in our daily lives and surroundings.

May this be a week in which you discover God’s power, His delicate handiwork, and His love for you in the small things around you, and come to a deeper realization of them. The One who created this world for you, who came to this earth for you, who died on the cross for you, and who rose again for you—may you experience Him in your everyday life, and may this Holy Week be rich and abundant for you.