HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY January 12–18, 2026

Post on 27 January, 2026 by Dallin Malmgren

Jan­u­ary 12, 2026

Do you hear what I hear?
#1668 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 12, 2025 Every­body needs to be heard. This is such a uni­ver­sal truth. Lis­ten­ing is much more impor­tant to my spir­i­tu­al growth than speak­ing. It is a skill that can be devel­oped. In Stephen Min­istry we are taught non-judg­men­tal lis­ten­ing, and it isn’t hard to employ with our care receivers. Why is it more dif­fi­cult at the din­ner table?
Jan­u­ary 13, 2026
How the light gets in…
#1669 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Jan­u­ary 3, 2025 Mul­ti-task­ing. That is some­thing I’ve nev­er been good at (a kid once rolled a joint in my class­room while I was up there talk­ing to the class). As I get old­er I notice that my sin­gle focus can become a gift. Many peo­ple seem to be think­ing quick­ly all the time, thoughts bounc­ing like pin­balls. That makes it much hard­er for God to get in.
Jan­u­ary 14, 2026
The cure for pain is in the pain. –Rumi
#1670 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Octo­ber 29, 2025 I have always been a baby about pain. The worst pain I ever felt was pass­ing a kid­ney stone–Karen was speed­ing down the inter­state at 2 a.m., tak­ing me to the ER, and I want­ed her to crash the car! See what I mean? Now I am con­front­ed with inten­tion­al pain. The only way my rota­tor cuff heals is for me to move my arm into a posi­tion that hurts and hold it there. It’s bad enough when my phys­i­cal ther­a­pist does it–doing it at home makes it self-inflicted…very hard to moti­vate myself. Thanks be to God who draws near­er to us in our pain!
Jan­u­ary 15, 2026
Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty 101…
#1671 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Novem­ber 11, 2025 “If you think of this world as a place sim­ply intend­ed for our hap­pi­ness, you find it quite intol­er­a­ble: think of it as a place for train­ing and cor­rec­tion and it’s not so bad.”
–C.S. Lewis
Actu­al­ly, I’ve been quite hap­py matric­u­lat­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of God. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, many of my class­mates are not even aware that they are enrolled.
Jan­u­ary 16, 2026
Rest in peace, Skip–see you around the bend.
#1672 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Jan­u­ary 16, 2026 I just learned that one of my old­est spir­i­tu­al com­pa­tri­ots — Fran­cis (Skip) Deady — passed away. He and his wife Martha and I all worked togeth­er at Mid-Mis­souri Men­tal Health Cen­ter in our wild and care­less hip­pie days. What’s amaz­ing is that we all com­mit­ted our lives to Jesus Christ around the same time, and none of us ever looked back. I think he’s the only per­son on earth that I par­tied with, got high with, played golf with, and went to church with. He was one of my favorites to work with — nev­er judg­men­tal, always sup­port­ive, always kind. I am so grate­ful to have known him.
Jan­u­ary 17, 2026
Which side are you on?
#1673 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Jan­u­ary 8, 2026 There seems to be a tremen­dous divi­sion with­in the Chris­t­ian church in Amer­i­ca. On the one hand, I’m told that con­ser­v­a­tive Chris­tians remain one of Trump’s strongest sup­port bases. Con­verse­ly, I’ve encoun­tered on social media and in my own expe­ri­ence count­less Chris­tians who are hor­ri­fied by the actions of ICE, sup­port the rights of the LGBTQ com­mu­ni­ty, endorse uni­ver­sal health­care, and abhor the moral char­ac­ter of the pres­i­dent. I go with the wis­dom of this priest:
Jan­u­ary 18, 2026
Fam­i­ly Sun­day, part­ing is such sweet sorrow…
#1674 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Jan­u­ary 1, 2026 It was a qui­et New Year’s Eve, with just my son and his daugh­ter here with me and Karen. We had to take them to the air­port at 4 a.m. so we tried to go to bed ear­ly, but you know how last minute pack­ing goes. It was a won­der­ful hol­i­day, but it’s sad see­ing them go know­ing we prob­a­bly won’t see them again until our next planned get-togeth­er, which is in July. Watch over them, Lord

 

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