February 7, 2022
#99 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Monday, January 10, 2022 A former student shared a Facebook post with me from a Fed Ex deliverywoman who delivered a package to a distraught woman whose husband was sick with cancer. The deliverywoman said a few niceties and then went on with her route. After about 20 stops she went back to the grieving woman and offered to pray with her. They shared one of those “God is right here” moments. The Fed Ex lady said she had been “nudged” by the Holy Spirit to return to the woman. I love that. God is not looking for willpower; He is looking for willingness.
February 8, 2022
This is kind of a special day, because this is my 100th time sharing this writing project…who would have thought God would be so communicative? (Remember, Tuesdays are golf days…sort of)
#100 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Friday, January 14, 2022 From my quiet time: “Perhaps there is nothing in this world as powerful to break selfishness as is the simple act of looking at our own children. In our love for them we are given a privileged avenue to feel as God feels–to burst in unselfishness, in joy, in delight, and in the desire to let another’s life be more real and important than our own.” –Ronald Rolheiser
I played golf with my son today…(to quote the poet)…and oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.
February 9, 2022
#101 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 You will either think this is silly or very cool. My granddaughters gave me a jigsaw puzzle for Christmas. When I finally completed it, one piece was missing! I searched high and low, around under and on the table. I even said a little prayer about it, acknowledging the triviality and the obsession. Then Karen searched–she even checked her vacuum cleaner bag. So tonight we are playing a game at the same table. Karen looks down at her elbow resting on the table–and there is the missing piece! I could almost hear God in heaven laughing.
February 10, 2022
#102 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thursday, January 13,2022 “All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful to me, but not all things edify. Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being.” (I Corinthians 10: 23–24) This is the gold standard. Being a Christian is never about rules. We have perfect liberty. But being a true believer means putting the other’s (whoever is in front of you) well-being ahead of your own. I fall short every single day. But like the song says: “I get knocked down, I get up again, you’re never gonna keep me down.”
February 11, 2022
#103 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Monday, November 8, 2021 I am reading Where Is God When It Hurts? with the Stephen Ministry group at my church. When we encounter suffering, our own or someone else’s, a frequent response is “Why, God?” Philip Yancey addresses the issue by referencing Jesus’s response to the disciple’s question about a man born blind. Yancey writes, “The disciples wanted to look backward, to find out “Why?” Jesus redirected their attention. Consistently, He points forward, answering a different question: “To what end?” And that, I believe, offers a neat summary of the Bible’s approach to the problem of pain. To backward-looking questions of cause, to the “why?” questions, it gives no definitive answers. But it does hold out hope for the future, that even suffering can be transformed or “redeemed.” A human tragedy, like blindness, can be used to display God’s mercy.
February 12, 2022
#104 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 How do I know that God has spoken to me? I invite him to, and then I pay attention. At the end of the day I reflect. Today God reaffirmed that He wants me to continue my writing project, that it pleases Him. It pleases me too.
February 13, 2022
This one is appropriate for Super Bowl day…
#105 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sunday, January 23, 2022 Seeing human beings perform at the very highest level (rare) convinces me that we really are created in God’s image. Watching Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes play football tonight was one of those times. Spectator sports can become so idolatrous, but they can also be elevating. Tonight I was elevated.
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