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

Post on 7 August, 2024 by Dallin Malmgren

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 mean­ing­ful (to me–it means noth­ing to eter­ni­ty) golf match today. God is offer­ing to me what He gives freely to lit­tle kids–forget about who won the T‑ball game five min­utes after it is over. I have to learn how to receive the gift. Right now I am hov­er­ing between res­ig­na­tion and disappointment.

July 3, 2024
#1115 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
April 28, 2024 One of the gifts God gave me by mak­ing me an Eng­lish teacher is that I became a sym­bol­ic thinker (prob­a­bly leaned that way already).…aware that there could be a deep­er mean­ing. No “it is what it is” for me. It is incred­i­ble how often I expe­ri­ence that dynam­ic in this writ­ing project. I believe God is teach­ing me that there is always a deep­er mean­ing. Make me atten­tive, Lord Jesus. (com­ic is a sym­bol­ic stretch, but I like it)

July 4, 2024
Wrote this one year ago–still hold to it…
#1116 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 4, 2023 Inde­pen­dence Day. I absolute­ly feel blessed to have been born and lived my life in the Unit­ed States. Few coun­tries can offer the oppor­tu­ni­ties to pur­sue life, lib­er­ty and hap­pi­ness that we do. Yet I reject Chris­t­ian nation­al­ism. I don’t believe Amer­i­cans have any spe­cial call­ing or bless­ing or sep­a­ra­tion from the rest of human­i­ty in God’s eyes. I do not under­stand MAGA (Make Amer­i­ca Great Again)–when were we ever? Our his­to­ry with slav­ery, with the oppres­sion of Native Amer­i­cans, with the plun­der­ing of our nat­ur­al resources, with pover­ty and prej­u­dice and war–it’s clear we’ve mucked up our col­lec­tive jour­ney as much as the Israelites of the Old Tes­ta­ment. If we want to pur­sue great­ness, that path­way lies ahead of us, not behind.

July 5, 2024
#1117 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Feb­ru­ary 17, 2024 “He has told you, o man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do jus­tice, and to love kind­ness, and to walk humbly with your God.” (Mic­ah 6:8). These are march­ing orders: “…do jus­tice…” — be fair-minded..always put what is right above what I want; “…love kind­ness…” — let good­will flow through me like rain water­ing the earth; “…walk humbly…” — God is invit­ing me to go for a walk–through life! How can I not be hum­bled by such an invitation?

July 6, 2024
#1118 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
March, 2024 “Prayerfulness…is the capac­i­ty to walk in touch with God through every­thing in life. It is the inter­nal aware­ness that God is with me–now, here, in this, always.” — from The Breath of the Soul by Joan Chit­tis­ter. Heav­en­ly Father, teach me prayerfulness.

July 7, 2024
Look­ing back on Fam­i­ly Sunday…
#1119 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June 16, 2024 It’s Father’s Day. I can only eval­u­ate father­hood through the lens of his­to­ry. If I focus on any par­tic­u­lar era, my first sen­sa­tion is regret–I could have been more present, I could have helped more, I could have lis­tened bet­ter. Ah well. I take full respon­si­bil­i­ty for my “fruits” and I am over­joyed with the big pic­ture. Ah, what a his­to­ry! I thank You, Jesus. I hope they do.

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