Picking blackberries

Haven't written anything for ages!!

There was a guy speaking at church yesterday about how we should seek God in everything. He was talking about Moses; the ground was always holy but only at a set point did he realise it. Only at a set point did he realise that God was in the bush (due to the heat, burning bushes were common, Moses would have seen loads of them).

"Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up." When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am." "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God" (Moses 3:1-6)

He quoted a bit from a poem;

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God.
But only those who see take off their shoes,
The rest stand around and pick blackberries.

How much am I missing out on because I fail to see its sacred value? How many things do I write off and completely discount, without stopping to look for God in them (ie college!)