HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY December 20–26, 2021

Post on 27 December, 2021 by Dallin Malmgren

Decem­ber 20, 2021
I first con­ceived of this writ­ing project in the mid­dle of August…on Novem­ber 1st I decid­ed to start post­ing on Face­book. This is what God said to me that day:
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Mon­day, Novem­ber 1, 2021 Some­times I wish God would just tell me what to do. I have been wrestling, pray­ing, con­tem­plat­ing what to do with this writ­ing project for the past two months, from seek­ing a pub­lish­er to let­ting Bethany find it when I am dead. Today, I/We decid­ed to put it up on Face­book, one day at a time. I look deep into my heart and won­der if that is my ego, my need for approval, or is it my desire to glo­ri­fy God? I sup­pose in time I/We will find out.

Decem­ber 21, 2021
Have you noticed that Tues­days are golf posts…God talks to me a lot through golf😉
#51 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tues­day, Novem­ber 23, 2021 Played a good round of golf and it buoyed my spir­its sig­nif­i­cant­ly. Some­how, that dis­ap­points me. The Apos­tle Paul said, “I have learned to be con­tent in what­ev­er cir­cum­stances.” A golf score is a cir­cum­stance, isn’t it? But I guess I’ve made some progress–I used to come home in black moods when i played bad­ly, and I’ve got­ten past that. My men­tor Bob Dylan put it best: “May you have a strong foun­da­tion when the winds of changes shift.”

Decem­ber 22, 2021
I thought this might be help­ful for the Christ­mas weekend:
#52 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 6, 2021 God taught me how to avoid an argu­ment. Per­son A presents a new plan. Per­son B responds neg­a­tive­ly to the plan. Per­son A, hurt and defen­sive, elab­o­rates on the plan. Per­son B force­ful­ly explains why the plan won’t work. And now the sit­u­a­tion is ready to blow–until God speaks. BREATHE (in, out) — do not defend or refute. BREATHE (in, out) — do not for­mu­late your next come­back. BREATHE (in, out) — defer the plan. BREATHE (in, out) — think of the Holy Spir­it WHO comes to you as a breath. The anger is dis­solved and the day is saved.

Decem­ber 23. 2021
#53 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, Novem­ber 19, 2021 There is a won­der­ful peace that come with doing what God wants you to do. All my years of teach­ing, I kind of put writ­ing on the back burn­er. Then I retired and thought: This is it. And for sev­en years I strug­gled with what God want­ed me to write–several dif­fer­ent for­ays, count­less prayers, many false starts. That is how I arrived at HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME. Nice to be here.

Decem­ber 24, 2021
With the hus­tle and bus­tle of the day before Christ­mas, this sure seems like God talk­ing to me:
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Tues­day, Novem­ber 16, 2021 In my hip­pie days, there was this poster called Desider­a­ta which was hung up in a lot of dif­fer­ent rooms. The first line has always stuck with me: “Go placid­ly amidst the noise and haste and remem­ber what peace there may be in silence.” It may not be from the Bible, but it sure is biblical.

Decem­ber 25,2021
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Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 25, 2021 Christ­mas Day. Emmanuel–God with us. What else is there to say?

Decem­ber 26, 2021
#56 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber, 27, 2021 Some­thing in my heart wants to con­nect God’s will with the out­come of a major ath­let­ic event. I mean, does­n’t Auburn vs. Alaba­ma have a cer­tain David vs. Goliath-ness to it? And every­body who is involved is so pas­sion­ate about the result–which can bring forth ela­tion or gloom, deter­mine career direc­tions, wreak hav­oc on inti­mate human rela­tion­ships (I haven’t even touched on the effects of gambling)–But God is hav­ing none of it. Que sera sera. You’d do as well to ask him to steer the results of a coin flip

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