HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY January 9–15, 2023

Post on 24 January, 2023 by Dallin Malmgren

Jan­u­ary 9, 2023
March­ing Order Monday…
#435 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thurs­day, Octo­ber 12, 2022 I usu­al­ly apply this lat­est march­ing order to my phi­los­o­phy of senior phys­i­cal fit­ness, but it has many spir­i­tu­al dimen­sions. I have a very com­fort­able easy chair, which is nice for med­i­ta­tion and con­tem­pla­tion, but lazi­ness is lurk­ing just around the cor­ner. MO: *You got­ta keep mov­ing (Best prac­ticed to the won­der­ful jazz riff Get A Move On! by Mr. Scruff)

Jan­u­ary 10, 2023
Tues­day is golf day…
#436 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 2, 2022 I think I (and many of us) are inhib­it­ed about express­ing our love for God. The oth­er day I want­ed to ask a friend if he had ever “heard” Jesus laugh–but I was afraid to. Yet I know He laughs with me, and it is fun when that hap­pens (I sus­pect I am a riot on the golf course). I think laugh­ter is the lan­guage of for­give­ness. I hope to make God laugh for eternity.

Jan­u­ary 11, 2023
#437 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 11, 2022 When I have tast­ed of the good­ness of God, it is impos­si­ble not to real­ize that i am rid­dled with sin. I don’t mean that in a Scar­let Let­ter, pitiable, dust and ash­es way. I know my nature and I glimpse His and the gulf is enor­mous. So I fall back on mer­cy and for­give­ness and grace, and we are re-unit­ed. My high­est hope is that I can demon­strate His love to oth­ers for the rest of my journey.

Jan­u­ary 12, 2023
#438 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, Decem­ber 15, 2022 Bob Dylan wrote a song called Press­ing On. It’s won­der­ful­ly inspi­ra­tional, an anthem real­ly. It fre­quent­ly pops into my mind, espe­cial­ly when I encounter dif­fi­cul­ties or doubts or out­right set­backs. It is pret­ty cool that Dylan evolved from “…with no direc­tion home, a com­plete unknown, like a rolling stone…” to “…I’m press­ing on to the high­er call­ing of my Lord…” Like me.

Jan­u­ary 13, 2023
#439 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 2, 2022 The first step in find­ing my way home is rec­og­niz­ing that I am lost. Denial is a pow­er­ful deter­rent to change.

Jan­u­ary 14, 2023
#440 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022 “Apart from me you can do noth­ing…” (John 15:5) What a won­der­ful, all-encom­pass­ing state­ment! This does­n’t just apply to chris­tians. It cov­ers the whole enter­prise, from grain of sand to far­thest star. How could I not rec­og­nize and nur­ture and enjoy the benef­i­cent good­ness that made all this pos­si­ble. Won­der of won­ders, He has made this con­nec­tion entire­ly per­son­al. O Lord, teach me to do noth­ing apart from You.

Jan­u­ary 15, 2023
#441 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thurs­day, Novem­ber 30, 2022 One of my new­er mantras: (inhale) “Mer­cy and grace and peace (exhale) from our Lord Jesus Christ.” Think of that: Mercy–any mis­step, any wrong impulse, any screw-up–it’s okay, I am with you. Grace–not only am I with you, but I am on your side–whether you under­stand it or not. Peace–because of the above two state­ments, peace is always avail­able to you. Avail your­self of it. Breathe in, breathe out.

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