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

Post on 16 October, 2024 by Dallin Malmgren

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 at “fruit of the Spir­it” goals. If I want to be patient… if I want to have self-con­trol… if I want to be lov­ing… if I act as if, I am becoming.

Sep­tem­ber 17, 2024
Golf Tues­day, pressurized…
#1191 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 10, 2024 I play in our club cham­pi­onship tomor­row. It is our biggest event of the year, and I am a lit­tle ner­vous about it. The stakes are high­er, but it’s about more than mon­ey. Every­body wants to play their best in the club cham­pi­onship, but rarely does it hap­pen. Because I am ner­vous, I have prayed about it, and this is what I got from Jesus: Let Me join you.

Sep­tem­ber 18, 2024
#1192 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 27, 2024 I love this: “What this sto­ry high­lights is some­thing that is too often lost with­in spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, name­ly, that the high­est com­pli­ment some­one can give to a gift giv­er is to thor­ough­ly enjoy the gift. The high­est com­pli­ment we can give to God, our Cre­ator, is to thor­ough­ly enjoy the gift of life. One should nev­er look a gift uni­verse in the mouth.” –Ronald Rolheiser
No dour Chris­tian­i­ty for me…my Sav­ior says: “I have come that you may have life and have it abun­dant­ly.” (John 10:10)

Sep­tem­ber 19, 2024
#1193 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 17, 2024 Cir­cum­stances have led me to go through my entire book col­lec­tion, a bit­ter­sweet expe­ri­ence. My library is at least 50% unread. Ah, there is so much I have intend­ed to read! Read­ing has been one of God’s most pleas­ing gifts to me, from boy­hood to right now. He intend­ed it to enhance my life not replace it, so I have no regrets over unread books. Now if I only knew how to give them away…

Sep­tem­ber 20, 2024
#1194 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August 4, 2024 I have lost my glass­es. Anoth­er exam­ple of my mind slip­ping. I don’t know whether to attribute it to hap­pen­stance, care­less­ness, the long-term effect of drink­ing, a nat­ur­al result of aging, or the dread­ed D word rear­ing its ugly head as I descend–some com­bi­na­tion of the above, I imag­ine. My response is more sig­nif­i­cant than attri­bu­tion. I resolve to:
a) pray to find them; b) look for them; c) be thank­ful that I have oth­ers; and d) trust God for my over­all health and well-being.

Sep­tem­ber 21, 2024
#1195 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 15, 2024 We are hav­ing restora­tion work done in our house because of water dam­age. The Bible tells me there is a pur­pose to our tri­als, so this is what I am com­ing up with:
*God is hav­ing me re-exam­ine my atti­tudes about mon­ey; hav­ing it, sav­ing it, spend­ing it, and giv­ing it.
*God is remind­ing me to make a dis­tinc­tion between tem­po­ral things and spir­i­tu­al things.
*God is encour­ag­ing me to let go of the arti­facts of my past by decluttering.

Sep­tem­ber 22, 2024
Fam­i­ly Sun­day, and it’s too quiet…
#1196 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August 10, 2024 Silence. My daugh­ter and two grand­daugh­ters returned to Ann Arbor today. There is abun­dant peace and qui­et, but it’s the emp­ty kind. The back porch is dif­fer­ent with­out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of one of them strolling out to join me. Silence is won­der­ful, but fam­i­ly is even better.

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