HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY December 9–15, 2024

Post on 29 December, 2024 by Dallin Malmgren

Decem­ber 9, 2024
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Octo­ber 29, 2024 This is con­vict­ing to me–I could do so much more! “A grate­ful life is a life in which we come to see that the Lord Him­self is the gift. The mys­tery of min­istry is that the Lord is to be found where we min­is­ter. That is what Jesus tells us when He says, “Inso­far as you did this to the least of one of these broth­ers of Mine, you did it to Me.” (Matthew 25:40). Our care for peo­ple thus becomes the way the meet the Lord.” –Hen­ri Nouwen

Decem­ber 10, 2024
Golf Tues­day, the vicissitudes…
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Decem­ber 10, 2024 vicis­si­tude — (n.) — a change of cir­cum­stances or for­tune, typ­i­cal­ly one that is unwel­come or unpleas­ant. I shot 77 yesterday–tomorrow (not play­ing today) I will prob­a­bly shoot 84. That is a vicis­si­tude. What God is teach­ing me is that the devel­op­ment of my char­ac­ter on the golf course has noth­ing to do with the score that I post or in the mon­ey that I win or lose, except in how I react to them. Or, as Rud­yard Kipling put it: “If you can meet with tri­umph and dis­as­ter / And treat those two impos­tors just the same…”

Decem­ber 11, 2024
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Novem­ber 2, 2024 I was talk­ing with a dear old friend about his recent woes and he told me that spir­i­tu­al growth comes through suf­fer­ing. I know there is truth to that. So I went to the wis­est man I know and told him my life is quite won­der­ful, I stink at suf­fer­ing, but I want to draw near­er to God more than any­thing. Do I seek out pain? He told me that the key is trust, his life is won­der­ful too, we can’t con­trol our cir­cum­stances, the pres­ence of God can make every­thing accept­able, even being cru­ci­fied upside down, like Peter.

Decem­ber 12, 2024
Post event hap­pened four months ago; pho­to was yesterday..
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August 14, 2024 Some­times I have my head in the clouds… I missed our ROMEO (retired old men eat­ing out) lunch today. I want­ed to go, I intend­ed to go, even remind­ed peo­ple to go. At 1:30 I was sit­ting in my study, absorbed in a mys­tery nov­el (The Thurs­day Mur­der Club–quite good). Nev­er thought of ROMEO until 3:15. One of the per­ils of seniori­tis part II–nothing seems urgent any­more. Keep me mind­ful, Lord.

Decem­ber 13, 2024
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Novem­ber 4, 2024 The faults I am most blind to are my own. I think that is human nature. And yet, those are the faults it’s most impor­tant for me to rec­og­nize because they’re the only ones I can do some­thing about.

Decem­ber 14, 2024
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Decem­ber 14, 2024. A pre-Christ­mas med­i­ta­tion (cour­tesy of David Wilkie):

Decem­ber 15, 2024
Some­times a com­ic strikes the per­fect chord on a Fam­i­ly Sunday…
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A day in the life of Dallin and Karen:

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