July 17, 2023
#624 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 I can’t just receive mercy. I have to allow it to flow through me. It won’t stop. Or, as the Bible puts it, “..forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
July 18, 2023
If it’s Tuesday, I’m thinking about golf…
#625 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June, 2023. My golfing friend, a good Methodist for many years, told me that he has become convinced he is exactly where God wants him to be–living in a harmonious marriage, serving in a slowly dying church, taking opportunities to see and enjoy this world as they present themselves, and trying to be the best man he can be on a daily basis. What a wonderful faith!
July 19, 2023
#626 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 Moderation. (moderate–v.–become less intense, extreme, rigorous or violent). When I think of exercising moderation, I usually think of food or drinking or even spending. I seldom think of moderating my emotions–to be hurt but not too hurt, to be envious but not too envious, to be happy but not too happy. Emotions call for the most moderation. One of my favorite verses from St. Paul: “Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.” (Ephesians 4:26). That is moderation.
July 20, 2023
#627 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June, 2023 In my experience the hardest step in learning to abide in Christ is letting go of my ego. Here is Bob Dylan’s take on it:
“There’s a whole lot of people in trouble tonight from the disease of conceit/ Whole lot of people seeing double tonight from the disease of conceit/ Give you delusions of grandeur and an evil eye/ Give you the idea that you’re too good to die/
Then they bury you from your head to your feet/ From the disease of conceit.”
July 21, 2023
#628 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 This from my quiet time: “Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.” (I Timothy 6:17–19). A reminder that greed and covetousness do not announce themselves–they seep in; and that the best things in life are free.
July 22, 2023
#629 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June, 2023 We had our ROMEO lunch today. I am convinced that a strong force of despair in the elderly is loneliness and isolation. It is up to us to keep reaching out to make contact.
July 23, 2023
For Family Sunday I am packaging the first and last day of our reunion in British Columbia in March..
#630 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
March 9, 2023 — After a long day of travel (8 hours of airports and airplanes, 4 hours of driving), I get to sit in front of the fire with my beloved daughter and her husband (my poor exhausted wife off to bed, the children tucked away)…and I realize this feels like home. Home is wherever God wants me to be.
March 15, 2023 — Travel day, a 4 1/2 hour car ride, a 2 1/2 hour plane ride, a 2 hour plane ride, and a 20 minute drive home, all packed into a 16 hour day…a mini-version of wandering in the desert for 40 years. And walking into my own home at midnight was akin to entering the Promised Land for me.
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