April 17, 2023
#533 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
February, 2023 Health becomes such a critical factor when you are old. It’s the number one thing we talk about, more than God or sports or food. I know that it’s easier for me to stay spiritually positive because I’ve been enjoying a period of good health. Several of my friends are facing serious health issues– “trust God” is such facile advice, but what else is there, really? When I get to that door, no one, not doctor or wife or family, is crossing over with me. Except Jesus. When my time comes, I want to let go, not hang on.
April 18, 2023
It’s Golf Tuesday–always one of my favorite days to post..
#534 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
April, 2023 My earliest golf memory: we were all 4th or 5th graders, and someone got his dad’s three wood and some balls. We each got to hit one across a field and into a lot where an apartment complex was half-built. I only remember that swing. I caught it square and it sailed over the framed-out apartment. Sixty years later I have a Golf Tuesday on my blog. Anyone who doesn’t realize that life is a tapestry and all the threads come together is not paying attention as it goes by.
April 19, 2023
#535 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
March, 2023 Stillness. That is an easy one for me to get away from. We are not encouraged to practice stillness in our culture at all. In fact, stillness seems like a defensive response to our culture. I find it easier to attune myself to God in stillness. I am more aware of my surroundings. It becomes natural to be present. I suppose people in monasteries understood about stillness. This is another one of my mantra verses: (Inhale) “Be still and know…” (Exhale) “..that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10) Very effective.
April 20, 2023
#536 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
February, 2023 I am starting to learn that my true identity does not reside with my ego. I am not Dallin Malmgren: respected retired teacher, beloved family man, middling golfer, dedicated spiritual blogger. All of that is going to peel away when I pass through that door. I will be Dallin Malmgren, child of God. Will I still go by Dallin? Don’t know, won’t care. My ego is not eternal; my soul is. The Avett Brothers have this wonderful lyric contemplating death:
“Will I join the ocean blue/ Or run into a Savior true and shake hands laughing/ And walk through the night straight to the light;/ Holding the love I’ve known in my life/ And no hard feeling?”
That is how the soul passes on.
April 21, 2023
#537 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
February, 2023 Faith is a recurring decision–I have to make it. Trust is a characteristic, like patience or humility–it has to develop. I can only develop my trust by exercising my faith.
April 22, 2023
#538 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
March, 2023 Ah, springtime is just around the corner. In Texas, Autumn is slightly more pleasant than Spring, weather-wise, but I’ll still take the Spring. In the summer God teaches me perseverance; in the Fall, peace; in the Winter it’s endurance; in the Spring it is all about joy.
April 23, 2023
It’s Family Sunday!
#539 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
March, 2023 Texas Malmgren Family Reunion (in British Columbia) Day #2–This is how God spoke to Karen today… She and Bethany and Agnes (4 y.o.) were in the waiting area while Edith was at her gymnastics class. Karen was entertaining Agnes by reading her a story. As the class was ending, a woman–a complete stranger–approached Karen and said: “I just have to tell you that you are the most wonderful grandmother–the love you both have is just so evident.” The Holy Spirit was at work in the room.
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