HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY January 23–29, 2023

Post on 22 February, 2023 by Dallin Malmgren

Jan­u­ary 23, 2023
It’s March­ing Order Monday!
#448 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sun­day, Novem­ber 20, 2022 The apos­tle Paul says, “Pray with­out ceas­ing…” I used to think, Come on, man, there’s a whole life going on here, how am I sup­posed to… Pray­ing with­out ceas­ing is about shar­ing all of my thoughts with God; invit­ing Him in–including Him. He is so unobtrusive–but always there. That is def­i­nite­ly my next march­ing order: *Pray with­out ceas­ing. I just need to remem­ber that it is a con­ver­sa­tion and every­one is invited.

Jan­u­ary 24, 2023
It’s Golf Tues­day (though it does­n’t feel like it outside..)
#449 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 4, 2023 This is just one of those days when I am con­fi­dent of God’s love. He showed it to me on the golf course (though I did­n’t play well), He showed it to me at a cou­ple of after­noon meet­ings, He is show­ing it to me now in the qui­etude of my study. The great­est priv­i­lege of being human is that we have the capa­bil­i­ty of whole-heart­ed­ly, unabashed­ly lov­ing Him back.

Jan­u­ary 25, 2023
#450 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 5, 2022 Accord­ing to Paul, our goal as ful­ly real­ized human beings is Christ-like-ness. As I look back on my his­to­ry, I real­ize how alien that goal is to pret­ty much every thing I ever did. Ah well, what’s done is done… Hav­ing rec­og­nized the pre-emi­nence of the aim, the task at hand is to make amends. My first instinct is rad­i­cal life surgery–sell every­thing and join the mis­sion field or get me to a monastery. Though He can, I don’t think God usu­al­ly works like that. The key to Christ-like-ness is His presence–I can’t man­u­fac­ture it, I have to allow Him to flow through me. Where bet­ter to start than at home?

Jan­u­ary 26, 2023
Willie has done it again…
#451 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thurs­day, Octo­ber 20, 2022 This song will def­i­nite­ly be played at my memo­r­i­al service:
“I’m gonna live forever
I’m gonna cross that river
I’m gonna catch tomor­row now…
You fathers and you mothers
Be good to one another
Please try to raise your chil­dren right
Don’t let the dark­ness take ’em
Don’t make ’em feel forsaken
Just lead them safe­ly to the light”
–Live For­ev­er by Willie Nelson

Jan­u­ary 27, 2023
#452 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, Decem­ber 29, 2022 Focus­ing on spir­i­tu­al­i­ty has the inher­ent dan­ger of mak­ing my thoughts so lofty that there is no one up here with me.

Jan­u­ary 28, 2023
#453 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thurs­day, Decem­ber 8, 2022 I am try­ing to learn to rec­og­nize His pres­ence. That is a tricky thing, because He does not con­form to us–we are sup­posed to con­form to Him. I hope this writ­ing project is a tes­ta­ment to the myr­i­ad ways He is will­ing to speak to me. I con­di­tion myself to see Him in cer­tain con­texts: in nature, in spe­cial events, in His word, in art (which is won­der­ful), and in the peo­ple He brings into my life. Rec­og­niz­ing His pres­ence means open­ing up more chan­nels. God does­n’t want to con­trol my life, He wants to enrich it.

Jan­u­ary 29, 2023
This one seemed appro­pri­ate on anoth­er cold day…
#454 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thurs­day, Decem­ber 22, 2022 It’s the cold­est day I’ve ever expe­ri­enced in Texas. When we take the exter­nals of our lives, like where we live, I think God has a lot more say in that than we give Him cred­it for. I am con­vinced God has put me in a warm weath­er cli­mate. I am very grate­ful to Him for that kindness.

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