HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY October 7–13, 2024

Octo­ber 7,2024 #1211 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August 17, 2024 A dif­fer­ent take on pover­ty and wealth: “Life with­out its essen­tials (food, shel­ter, med­i­cine) is, in fact, social obscen­i­ty, a moral respon­si­bil­i­ty that is incum­bent on soci­ety at large. God judges the poor on their hon­esty but the com­fort­able on their gen­eros­i­ty.” –Joan Chittister […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY September 30–October 6, 2024

Sep­tem­ber 30, 2024 Human­i­ty love, episode two… #1204 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August 27, 2024 We went to the Rap­tor Show at the High Desert Muse­um in Bend, Ore­gon. The upclose dis­play of these mag­nif­i­cent birds was absolute­ly awe-inspir­ing. What touched me equal­ly was the empha­sis the whole staff put on our role as conservator […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY September 23–29, 2024

Sep­tem­ber 23, 2024 #1197 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY June 3, 2024 Pos­i­tive self-image or ego? That line keeps danc­ing. Does it come down to who I put first, myself or oth­ers? I’m so used to putting myself first that I bare­ly notice it. But God says be vig­i­lant. When my self­ish inter­est in a situation […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY September 16–22, 2024

Sep­tem­ber 16, 2024 #1190 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 21, 2024 An old Zen koan keeps com­ing to mind: “If you want to be, act as if…” I used to use it to pur­sue ego goals–as if I am con­fi­dent… as if I’m in con­trol… Nev­er worked very well. Now I real­ize it is aimed […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY September 9–15, 2024

Sep­tem­ber 9, 2024 #1183 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July 11, 2024 When my spir­i­tu­al tank is low, I should: * be calm. *not judge * if pos­si­ble, seek soli­tude * affirm my faith. * be patient. * be care­ful about deci­sions. * pray. Sep­tem­ber 10, 2024 Golf Tues­day, it’s all about the fel­low­ship… #1184 HOW GOD SPOKE […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY September 2–8, 2024

Sep­tem­ber 2, 2024 #1176 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Sep­tem­ber 1, 2024 Live music. I believe God gave me the gift of writ­ing, and write I must. Musi­cal­ly, I’ve only iden­ti­fied one skill: lis­ten­ing (I can’t even dance). As I lis­ten to these folks, I real­ize how incred­i­bly gift­ed each one is, and what a joy […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August 26-September 1, 2024

August 26, 2024 #1169 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY June 20, 2024 This is the brief mes­sage for tonight: Do as I direct, even when you want to do some­thing else, and it will go well with you. Pow­er­ful. Key to hap­pi­ness, real­ly. August 27, 2024 Golf Tues­day, Texas sum­mer style… #1170 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August 19–25, 2024

August 19, 2024 Too hot on the porch, so… #1162 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Jan­u­ary 23, 2024 A tour of my study (my favorite room): I’ll start with the two por­traits of the Lord, one of Him as a boy talk­ing with the elders, one the clas­si­cal por­trait (I’m guess­ing He did­n’t look like that). […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August 12–18, 2024

August 12, 2024 #1155 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 23, 2024 George Mac­Don­ald, address­ing my ego: “The self is giv­en to us that we may sac­ri­fice it: it is ours, that we, like Christ, may have some­thing to offer…It means this–we must refuse, aban­don, deny self alto­geth­er as a rul­ing, or deter­min­ing, or orig­i­nat­ing element […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August 5–11, 2024

August 5, 2024 #1148 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 30, 2024 “Breath con­trol is emo­tion­al con­trol” — I heard that on Net­flix from an ath­let­ic train­er. It works for me. When I am hit with the flash of a neg­a­tive emotion–say envy or greed or anger–if I can rec­og­nize it, take a breath, take another, […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July 29-August 4, 2024

July 29, 2024 #1141 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Decem­ber 12, 2023 Evan­ge­lism — (n.) — the spread­ing of the Chris­t­ian gospel by pub­lic preach­ing or per­son­al wit­ness. I do not believe the telling of the gospel can be effec­tive in this day and age unless it is com­bined with the demon­stra­tion of the gospel, i.e., […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July 22–28, 2024

July 22, 2024 Ooops… #1134 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July 6, 2024 Most of the time I don’t want what is best for me–I want what I want. It is a mis­take to allow myself to sneak onto the throne. July 23, 2024 Golf Tues­day, the agony not the ecsta­sy… #1135 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July 15–21, 2024

July 15, 2024 #1127 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY June, 2024 Alco­hol. I can’t keep my deci­sion to stop drink­ing from my posts because it’s where I real­ly need to rely on God. A con­fes­sion: it won’t be easy (pho­to demon­strates I come from an alco­hol-lov­ing fam­i­ly). Most of my expe­ri­ences with alco­hol have been fun-loving, […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July 8–14, 2024

July 8, 2024 #1120 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April, 2024 When­ev­er I am in a state of dis­sat­is­fac­tion, I real­ize (soon­er or lat­er) that my mind is focused com­plete­ly on myself and I have for­got­ten entire­ly about Him. These peri­ods do not last as long as they used to. July 9, 2024 Golf Tues­day in per­spec­tive… #1121 […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July 1–7, 2024

July 1, 2024 #1113 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July 1, 2024 God has advised me to stop drink­ing. I am not sure what that means, but I am cer­tain it is His voice. So I have stopped. July 2, 2024 Golf Tues­day, the painful side… #1114 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY June 12, 2024 Lost a […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY June 24–30, 2024

June 24, 2024 #1006 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April, 2024 Hap­pi­ness and joy. My friend says they are two sep­a­rate enti­ties, nev­er nec­es­sar­i­ly con­nect­ed. I say that hap­pi­ness is an inn along the road­side on the jour­ney to joy. I under­stand that peo­ple can be made hap­py by base things–but way more by good things…like […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY June 17–23, 2024

June 17, 2024 #999 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July, 2023 Slow­ly I am get­ting the faintest grasp of the Trin­i­ty. Jesus is “…the first­born of all cre­ation…” (Colos­sians 1:15). That does­n’t mean the pro­to­type man. Before there was a star or a solar sys­tem or a mol­e­cule or an atom, I AM decid­ed to create–He […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY June 10–16, 2024

June 10, 2024 #992 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY March, 2024 This from my qui­et time: “We do not cre­ate prayer, but mere­ly pre­pare the ground and clear away the obsta­cles. Prayer is always a gift, a grace, the flame which ignites the wood; the Holy Spir­it gives prayer.” –from True Prayer by Ken­neth Leech. ‘…the […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY June 3–9, 2024

June 3, 2024 #985 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY March, 2024 “Blessed be the God and Father or our Lord Jesus Christ, who accord­ing to His great mer­cy has caused us to be born again to a liv­ing hope through the res­ur­rec­tion of Jesus Christ from the dead.” (I Peter 1:3) The great thing about some […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 27-June 2, 2024

May 27, 2024 #978 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 14, 2024 esca­late (v.) — become or cause to become more intense or seri­ous. A woman com­plained to me that her hus­band would “esca­late” their dis­agree­ments. Total­ly get it. When my ego is steer­ing the ship, I cling to my point of view. “Blessed are the […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 20–26, 2024

May 20, 2024 #971 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 11, 2024 This is my first spir­i­tu­al men­tor. He intro­duced me to Christ. He is also the most joy­ful Chris­t­ian I have ever been around. He is a won­der­ful encour­ager of my faith. Thank You for Ross, Lord Jesus. May 21, 2024 Golf Tues­day, look­ing for my swing… #972 […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 13–19, 2024

May 13, 2024 #964 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Feb­ru­ary, 2024 Advice for the goal of “…pray­ing with­out ceas­ing…”: “Inner prayer, if it comes to a man’s spir­it when he is with oth­er peo­ple, demands no use of lips or books, no move­ment of the tongue or sound of the voice; and the same is true […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 6–12, 2024

May 6, 2024 #957 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Feb­ru­ary, 2024 Con­fes­sion: My dai­ly life is pret­ty easy. A few church respon­si­bil­i­ties, some peo­ple I can help out, lots of friends to enjoy, a mar­riage to nur­ture, a house to help main­tain, fam­i­ly to love, junior sports to watch, a blog to write…so easy it makes […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April 29–May 5, 2024

April 29, 2024 #950 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April, 2024 There is a female mal­lard sit­ting right in front of me in the leaves (can you see it?). Alone. Why? And now the first mock­ing­bird of the sea­son is eat­ing at the feed­er. God is blow­ing kiss­es at me. I am remind­ed of the weathered […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April 22–28, 2024

April 22, 2024 #943 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Feb­ru­ary, 2024 This from my qui­et time: “Prayer is a mat­ter of keep­ing at it. The rewards will come no oth­er way. Thun­der­claps and light­ning flash­es are very unlike­ly. It is well to start small and qui­et­ly. No need to tell one’s friends and acquain­tances. No need […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April 15–21, 2024

April 15, 2024 #936 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Jan­u­ary, 2024 From my qui­et time: “Yet it is dif­fi­cult to write or to speak of the Holy Spirit…Our vocab­u­lary, our lan­guage, even our the­ol­o­gy clouds the Spir­it and con­ceals more than reveals. Light can­not be put into a bushel or the ocean into a buck­et. It […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April 8–14, 2024

April 8, 2024 Eclipse Mon­day… #929 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April 8, 2024 One of the most mag­i­cal expe­ri­ences I have had in my life. The clouds had been rolling through all morn­ing. The shade of the dark­ness, the still­ness of the air, the awe of the audi­ence… My broth­er Carl exclaimed, “We are totally […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April 1–7, 2024

April 1, 2024 #922 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Feb­ru­ary, 2024 Ill health. It seems to be pop­ping up all around me these days. There is no sick­ness with­out suf­fer­ing. I see so much courage dis­played in the face of ill­ness. So how do I respond to all these peo­ple, fam­i­ly and friends, who are beset […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY March 25–31, 2024

March 25, 2024 #915 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Jan­u­ary, 2024 Three state­ments in Romans 5: “…we exult in hope of the glo­ry of God.” (v. 2). “…we also exult in our tribu­la­tions, know­ing that tribu­la­tion brings about per­se­ver­ance…” (v. 3) “…we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now […]

HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY March 18–24, 2024

March 18, 2024 #908 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY Decem­ber 2023 Some­times I think God is extra-spe­­cial gen­tle with me. That is just my ego. And yet the ten­der care…the patience, the under­stand­ing, the acceptance…the leisure­ly pace at which He leads me…the light He shines point­ing the way…I am over­whelmed with grat­i­tude. Hid­den with­in one of […]