HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY December 19–25, 2022

Post on 26 December, 2022 by Dallin Malmgren

Decem­ber 19, 2022
It’s March­ing Order Monday!
#414 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tues­day, Octo­ber 11, 2022 Anoth­er march­ing order, from God to me: *See every inter­ac­tion as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to demon­strate love. This can be atten­tive­ness, a ges­ture, a show of sup­port, a pat on the shoul­der, even just a smile. This not only improves my jour­ney immense­ly; it also leaves behind me a trail of goodness.

Decem­ber 20, 2022
It’s Tues­day. And yes, this is about golf…
#415 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednes­day, Decem­ber 8, 2022 Inti­ma­cy. One thing I love is the inti­ma­cy of my rela­tion­ship with God. An exam­ple: I have been done an injus­tice. It is a small thing, but cer­tain­ly unjust. My imme­di­ate instinct is to pro­claim the injus­tice, declare my inno­cence, and expose the per­pe­tra­tor, who I believe only finds the sit­u­a­tion amus­ing. Instead, I take my woe (my bruised ego?) to God–Who agrees with me that it is a small thing, and with my friend that it is rather amus­ing. As the Apos­tle Paul put it, “Why not rather be wronged?” Thus I am pleas­ant­ly silenced.

Decem­ber 21, 2022

#416 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sun­day, Novem­ber 13, 2022 We had the three grand­daugh­ters spend the night. Karen and I fixed din­ner for them and then I set them up (K and the 3) with a Net­flix movie to watch. I went to my study to watch the UT/TCU game. Right before I fell asleep, God said “Yo.” I had had them here for an entire evening and had hard­ly any inter­ac­tion. So in the morn­ing I fixed break­fast while they cre­at­ed an apple store. I was their first and only cus­tomer (I was very dif­fi­cult). As I look back, the morn­ing was way more inter­est­ing than the pre­vi­ous evening.

Decem­ber 22, 2022
Have I men­tioned breath­ing as a spir­i­tu­al exercise?
#417 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 19, 2022 (Inhale) Grace and mer­cy and peace (exhale) from Our Lord Jesus Christ. That is my new sleep mantra. It used to be: (Inhale) Lord Jesus Christ (exhale) have mer­cy on me. I got that from J.D. Salinger’s Fran­ny and Zooey, but he added a kick­er: …a mis­er­able sin­ner (not sure how the breath­ing worked on that). It’s a nice progression–I’ve come far enough to know the mer­cy is already there.

Decem­ber 23,2022

#418 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, Octo­ber 28, 2022 God keeps teach­ing me this over and over about mar­riage (I am such a slow learn­er!): It is a ques­tion of bal­ance. Not too much one side, not too much the oth­er side. Think of it as a see­saw with God as the ful­crum. Ah, for those moments when we achieve per­fect bal­ance and we both float in the air, like the Spirit!

Decem­ber 24, 2022
One of those rare occa­sions where today’s post is today’s post…
#419 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 24, 2022 Karen and I just attend­ed our church’s Christ­mas Eve can­dle­light service–just the two of us, no oth­er fam­i­ly. We can’t remem­ber that ever hap­pen­ing before. Of course, that made us sad. Christ­mas is such a fam­i­ly time! On the oth­er hand, I have been sad before because I did­n’t get the present I want­ed. The true and most impor­tant joy of the Christ­mas cel­e­bra­tion nev­er changes: Emmanuel, God with us.

Decem­ber 25, 2022
#420 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sun­day, Decem­ber 25, 2022
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her king…

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