July 10, 2023
Meditation Monday…
#617 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 I have discovered a pitfall in the art of meditation. If I go into it with a distracted or unsettled mind, it is much easier to jump off track and even stay off track. Further wandering means further out of touch. I try to refocus, breathing and mantra, and return to stillness. The key is remembering it’s not my attempt to reach God, it’s an invitation for God to speak to me.
July 11, 2023
Golf Tuesday, ruefully…
#618 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June, 2023 My black eye. I’d like to say I got it protecting someone helpless from someone mean. I’d be okay with saying it was accidental–an unintended elbow. I’d even settle for saying I walked into a swinging door. It is extremely humbling to admit I hit myself with my own sand wedge–but that’s what happened.
July 12, 2023
#619 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 Certain verses work well for me with certain moods–this is my discouragement verse: “Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.” (Galatians 6:9). Bob Dylan calls it “pressing on.”
July 13, 2023
#620 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 Conversations with God. No limits. I can be completely transparent. He already knows my most jaundiced ideas, my wildest fantasies, my pettiest emotions. He knows everything that has ever gone through my mind, and every single thing I have ever done. And yet He demonstrates continually, faithfully that He loves me. I don’t want Him to stop my thoughts, I want Him to direct them. That is what spiritual healing is about.
July 14, 2023
#621 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 I posted earlier: “..a Christian has to be willing to be changed.” I usually think of that as a slow progression, which it most certainly is. Yet it also has a here and now application–when I’m tired and have something I should do…when I am judging and don’t want to let go…when the low road looks more appealing than the high road…God is able to change me in that very moment. I just have to be willing.
July 15, 2023
#622 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June, 2023 God and diet. The pharisee in me thinks that I should eat vegetables and fruit and nuts, all homegrown. The flesh in me thinks I should eat whatever I want whenever I want. Me and the Lord are wandering somewhere in the wilderness between those two points. I am currently holding steady around 193–my target weight is 180 (it has been for about 25 years). Is it simply a matter of self-control (which is a fruit of the Spirit)? I haven’t figured it out yet.
July 16, 2023
Home alone on a Family Sunday…
#623 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
November, 2022 God continues to encourage me to find balance in my marriage. Balance certainly doesn’t mean holding on tighter to my side of the teeter totter. But it does mean something more than evening each other out. I think it means elevating. Karen and I are supposed to make one another better people…just like Christ does.
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