HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August 12–18, 2024

Post on 19 August, 2024 by Dallin Malmgren

August 12, 2024
#1155 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May 23, 2024 George Mac­Don­ald, address­ing my ego: “The self is giv­en to us that we may sac­ri­fice it: it is ours, that we, like Christ, may have some­thing to offer…It means this–we must refuse, aban­don, deny self alto­geth­er as a rul­ing, or deter­min­ing, or orig­i­nat­ing ele­ment in us. It is no longer the regent of our action. We are no more to think ‘What should I like to do?’ but ‘What would the Liv­ing One have me do?’ ” Isn’t that something?

August 13, 2024
Golf Tues­day, the elder­ly version…
#1156 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 10, 2024 We had our ROMEO (retired old men eat­ing out) lunch today at our favorite Ital­ian restau­rant. As I looked around the table, I thought how gra­cious God was to place me here, and how good it is for old men to have fel­low­ship. This group grew out of our senior men’s golf group. Three or four of the guys can no longer golf because of infir­mi­ties, and most of us are golf­ing less than we used to. This wind­ing down of life is a tricky business–one should avoid doing it alone.

August 14, 2024
#1157 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June 23, 2024 Father Edward J. Far­rell rec­og­nized the pur­pose of my blog long before I did: “I would like to invite peo­ple of faith to share their expe­ri­ence of Jesus,so I begin with my own: I think of myself as a friend of Jesus, spend­ing time with Him, think­ing about Him, rec­og­niz­ing His pres­ence, know­ing and expe­ri­enc­ing that He loves me, see­ing my life through His eyes.” –from Gath­er­ing the Frag­ments: A Gospel Mosaic

August 15, 2024
#1158 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 23, 2023. “The Lord is my shep­herd, I shall not want.” If He’s the shep­herd, then I am a sheep. Hmm…being a sheep has a neg­a­tive con­no­ta­tion in my culture–a sheep will bow down to any leader. How­ev­er, sheep are free to do what­ev­er they think best in the field, and they are secure in the knowl­edge they are always watched over. That’s the beau­ty of the verse–THE LORD is my shepherd–that means I don’t have to bow down to any human leader–that is inde­pen­dence. I shall not want.

August 16, 2024
#1159 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 13, 2024 I am wor­ry­ing about wor­ry. Giv­en the state of this world, how can we (and I mean both sides of the polit­i­cal spec­trum) not be con­sumed with wor­ry? Are we not going to turn into some kind of waste­land like we see in the futur­is­tic sci-fi movies? But I have been instruct­ed by One infi­nite­ly wis­er than me that I am not to wor­ry. This is why one of my march­ing orders is: Sim­pli­fy. God only has one solu­tion for worry–faith…

August 17, 2024
#1160 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Octo­ber 10, 2023 If I get spir­i­tu­al­ly uppi­ty with my writ­ing project, God reminds me how much eas­i­er it is to turn my focus to Him because I’m retired and don’t have a lot on my plate. After spend­ing 15 days in Spain fol­lowed by nine days with house guests, I real­ize how nat­u­ral­ly I can get caught up in every­day events and for­get about God. By His grace and His mer­cy and His love, He does not for­get about me.

August 18, 2024
Fam­i­ly Sun­day in the good ol’ summertime…
#1161 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 30, 2024 Three acts of courage. A near­by pool has a 20 foot high rock climb­ing wall and a place you can jump off. Edith (9) had nev­er jumped before, and Elliotte (10) and Mason (7) want­ed to try doing a flip off it. It was won­der­ful to watch them fac­ing a con­flict (being scared) and over­com­ing it (jump­ing any­way). Indomitable. Some­times it takes chil­dren to remind me why I love humanity.

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