August 26, 2024
#1169 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June 20, 2024 This is the brief message for tonight: Do as I direct, even when you want to do something else, and it will go well with you. Powerful. Key to happiness, really.
August 27, 2024
Golf Tuesday, Texas summer style…
#1170 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August 7, 2024 We are in the midst of a heat wave. I can cooperate with the weather or resist it–cooperation is the wiser path. Twelve of us played golf today (including a 95 year old man, I promise). It was 103 degrees around noon when we finished. What drives us? Obviously we enjoy the game–but there is an element of “…raging against the dying of the light…” in there too. Put those shovels away. Coming home tired and hot can carry a sense of satisfaction. Good company, also.
August 28, 2024
#1171 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August 27, 2024 The last Blockbuster on the planet (in Bend, Oregon)–and our 47th anniversary! It’s astonishing to think that this corporation’s entire existence was contained within the span of our marriage. I wonder how many rentals we had? Well over 47! Then I realize the Internet didn’t even exist when we were starting out. We are old, Karen–but happy and blessed.
August 29, 2024
#1172 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June 24, 2024 Sometimes I feel absolutely showered by God’s love–could be just a pleasant day…could be good news about one of my children…could be a special moment with Karen…could be sitting on my porch looking up at Him. I am a Sonflower–I open up wide when He shines on me.
August 30, 2024
#1173 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 7, 2024 mortality — (n.) — the state of being subject to death. The 95 year old man I’ve been visiting in Assisted Living died this week. He was in an advanced stage of dementia (I was never sure if he knew who I was). His family was all around him the last time I visited, and he was pretty lucid. I don’t believe he was troubled by mortality. I’ve said it before–death is a mercy.
August 31, 2024
#1174 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June 26, 2024 Here’s a reflection on old age: As a teacher for 30 plus years, I had thousands of people pass through my life. All of those were opportunities for me to extend God’s love–don’t even want to think about how many times I fell short. But now my life has changed–there are not nearly so many opportunities. God tells me that’s why it’s all the more important to extend His love now–to my wife, to my family, to my extended family, to my friends, and to all the people He brings into my life.
Spetember 1, 2024
Family Sunday, the agony and the ecstasy…
#1175 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August 2, 2024 My 6 year old granddaughter is still capable of temper tantrums–I don’t mean pouts–I mean psychic disturbances. From the next room it sounds like the throes of frustration and anger and agony. How can such a little life suffer so intensely? There is a certain purity to it–nothing is filtered. O Lord, we are wondrously made.
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