February 21, 2022
#113 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 He is here. Right now. My oh so slow growing awareness of that simple truth has made all the difference in my life. It is true for me as I write this–it is true for you as you read this–it is true for my granddaughters when they, God willing, stumble across this truth in their lives. But there is a first step that each of us must take–you have to believe it is true. Then it becomes a relationship, not a religion.
February 22, 2022
As I have said, Tuesdays are golf days…
#114 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Monday, October 25, 2022 This from my morning quiet time: “Life is meant to be lived from a Center, a divine Center. Each one of us can live such a life of amazing power and peace and serenity, of integration and confidence and simplicity, on one condition–that is, if we really want to.” (Thomas Kelly’s A Testament of Devotion)
So I carried that thought with me to the golf course. Was cruising along nicely until I hit a bad shot on #17–and, worse yet, got a terrible bounce. I made double bogey, which cost my team about $20, and inside I was cursing my fate. How quickly and easily I can slide from serenity to self-interest!
February 23, 2022
#115 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thursday, January 20, 2022 Every time I worry abou the state of this world (which is whenever I watch the news), God says, “It is not on you, it’s on Me. I’ll handle the Big Picture–you concentrate on the Here and Now. And please let me help.”
February 24, 2022
#116 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 “Lord, I do believe; help Thou my unbelief.” (Mark 9:24) I’ve had the realization that so much of the doubt I struggle with is not about God or Jesus or the Spirit–it’s about me! Can I keep from straying? If I believe this, why do I do that? Am I a hypocrite? God keeps coming back with the same answer: Your eyes are in the wrong place. I’ve never expected you to change; I said I would change you. You see the stumble; I see the journey. Do not worry about your unbelief. Come unto Me.”
February 25, 2022
#117 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thursday, February 24, 2022 I suppose you can read the Old Testament and find a way to convince yourself that there is such a thing as a just war, or that God favors one side over the other. But any sane reading of the New Testament makes it obvious that war is unacceptable human behavior. Please pray for the Ukraine.
February 26, 2022
#118 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sunday, January 2, 2022 I write my daily post because I believe this: John of the Cross once said that the language of God is the experience God writes into our lives.…God does not speak to us through seances, and the most important things that God wants to say to us are not given in extraordinary mystical visions. The God of the incarnation has real flesh on earth and speaks to us in the bread and butter of our lives, through the things that have skin–historical circumstances, our families, our neighbors, our churches, and that borderline-psychotic friend who painfully reminds us that we are not God. When we look for God’s guidance, these voices must complement the voice from heaven. —from The Holy Longing by Ronald Rolheiser
February 27, 2022
#119 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Saturday, January 29, 2022 Yes, undoubtedly, God speaks to us through His word, the Bible. But He also keeps showing me there is so much I can learn, or assimilate, from Christians who have gone before me. This is from John Main in Word Made Flesh: “The mystery that renews our hold on life once we enter it is that we, very ordinary people, are to be transformed in Christ. We have only to be mindful and so to realize from our own experience everything that has been achieved for us by Jesus.”
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