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). I appre­ci­ate them as icons, watch­ing from over my left shoul­der. They encour­age me to seek His presence.

August 20, 2024
Golf Tues­day, the agony…
#1163 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 17, 2024 Lost an extreme­ly close golf match today (three play­off holes). If golf is a spir­i­tu­al exer­cise, growth is more impor­tant than tri­umph. From the low of a missed easy putt to the sat­is­fac­tion of a per­fect­ly struck shot, my emo­tions are like a schiz­o­phrenic esca­la­tor. He is always there, try­ing to steady me. It is so much fun. And I haven’t even men­tioned the three won­der­ful men I played the match with…

August 21, 2024
#1164 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May 21, 2024 I am begin­ning to under­stand that what becomes of me is out of my con­trol. The how and the why and the when of my end of this life is unknown…except by Him. Hav­ing trust­ed Him this far–that faith being reaf­firmed count­less times–I would be a fool to put my hope any­where else. I trust Him not to just get me there but to arrange the trans­porta­tion. “Thy will be done.” Lead on, Lord Jesus.

August 22, 2024
What the heck, let’s try Fam­i­ly Thursday…
#1165 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August 22, 2024 A morn­ing prayer: Thank You for the sim­ple fact that I can trav­el a thou­sand plus miles and You are still with me. Every­thing about where I am has changed–nothing about who I am. I woke up with the same hunger, the same need, the same desire–You. A new day and a new place and a new adventure–what do You have for me today, Lord? And, I real­ize, o joy, my wife is with me, my son is with me, my grand­daugh­ter is with me, prov­ing once again that You are always with me.

August 23, 2024
#1166 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June 15, 2024 Self-criticism–give it a cen­time­ter, it’ll take a kilo. The fur­ther I allow it to creep, the more pow­er I cede to it. The weak­est (and often eas­i­est) defense I can sup­ply is jus­ti­fi­ca­tion; I am this way because… When intro­spec­tion leads to self-con­dem­na­tion, I have one healthy recourse: con­fes­sion, remis­sion, and press­ing on to the high­er call­ing of my Lord.

August 24, 2024
#1167 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August 24, 2024 From the roil­ing heat of Texas where the air shim­mers to the per­sis­tent drear of the Pacif­ic North­west where the earth absorbs–can this be the same cre­ation? But of course–His diver­si­ty knows no bounds. Not every­thing God makes is beau­ti­ful, but every­thing fits. My job is to learn to nav­i­gate. And I think to myself, what a won­der­ful world!

August 25, 2024
Fam­i­ly Sun­day bond­ing time…
#1168 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August 2, 2024 I always pray for fish when I fish, and it usu­al­ly does­n’t work. Today it did.

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