HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY December 15–21, 2025

Post on 29 December, 2025 by Dallin Malmgren

Decem­ber 15, 2025.

I am blessed to be a part…

#1640 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Decem­ber 8, 2025 Me and some of my fel­low Stephen Min­is­ters cel­e­brat­ing Christmas–I have been with them for six years now. They embody Christ’s direc­tive: “…let us not love in word and speech but in deed and truth.” (I John 3:18)
Decem­ber 16, 2025
The sound of silence…
#1641 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Decem­ber 5, 2025 Wis­dom from Sis­ter Joan Chittister:
Every tra­di­tion con­ceives of silence as “the gate­way to God,” the entry way to spir­i­tu­al wis­dom, the begin­ning of inte­ri­or peace, the first step to self-con­trol. Silence, the mas­ters repeat, is the first step to wis­dom, the door to self-awareness.Silence, the monas­tics real­ize, is the link that con­nects us to the Divine.
–from The Monas­tic Heart
I know sev­er­al peo­ple who won’t do any­thing with­out music or talk radio or tele­vi­sion buzzing in the back­ground. Silence is a won­der­ful friend to embrace.
Decem­ber 17, 2025
A cor­rec­tion…
#1642 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Novem­ber 13, 2025 “The root of joy is grate­ful­ness.… It is not joy that makes us grate­ful; it is grat­i­tude that makes us joyful.”
– David Steindl-Rast
No won­der my cart has been mov­ing so slow­ly all this time–I’ve had the cart before the horse!
Decem­ber 18, 2025
Every once in awhile God pats me on the back to encour­age me to write…
#1643 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Decem­ber 1, 2025 I got this email yesterday:
Hi Dallin,
I just want­ed to drop you a note say­ing thank you for writ­ing IS THIS FOR A GRADE? I bought it at a now-closed book­store in Michi­gan. I was a rook­ie in a small town and your book came at the right time. It was 1995 and I need­ed the inspi­ra­tion. So, thanks. I’m now in year 31, 17 of these as a super­in­ten­dent. I have your book in my office, and thought to myself, I’m going to see if I can find him online. Thanks! R.H.
Decem­ber 19, 2025
When my time is up…
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Novem­ber 14, 2025 It’s hard to know how I will react when my own death is immi­nent. I know deep in my heart that peace and joy and glo­ry await. And yet, my heart still seizes up if I look down from a great height–that has to cor­re­late with a fear of death! The only way to resolve this para­dox is to turn the mat­ter over to God. I have to trust Him. I used to tell my cre­ative writ­ing stu­dents that I hoped to go by being struck by light­ning on the golf course. Do you hear that, Lord?
Decem­ber 20, 2025
You go your way and I go mine…
#1645 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Octo­ber 9, 2025 This from my qui­et time: “Always keep your life mea­sured by the stan­dards of Jesus. Bow your neck to His yoke alone, and to no oth­er yoke what­ev­er; and be care­ful to see that you nev­er bind a yoke on oth­ers that is not placed by Jesus Christ. It takes God a long time to get us out of the way of think­ing that unless every­one sees as we do, they must be wrong. That is nev­er God’s view. ” –Oswald Chambers
Decem­ber 21, 2025
Fam­i­ly Sun­day on the play­ing field…
#1646 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Decem­ber 14, 2025 I was at a club vol­ley­ball tour­na­ment this week­end — Girls 14’s. The skill lev­el and the inten­si­ty lev­el were both amaz­ing. I could read in the par­ents’ faces the emo­tion­al invest­ment they have in their chil­dren’s suc­cess. I get that. I fol­lowed my chil­dren around to ten­nis tour­na­ments for sev­en years. I came home from vol­ley­ball and read this poem. Ah, perspective!

 

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