HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY May 25–31, 2026

Post on 6 June, 2026 by Dallin Malmgren

May 25, 2026

Him or me?
#1600 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
April 27, 2026 “The Chris­t­ian life is a process of hav­ing your nat­ur­al self changed into a Christ self. One’s most pri­vate wish­es, one’s point of view, are the things that have to be changed.” –C.S. Lewis
So many Chris­tians are so zeal­ous to change the world (Ten Com­mand­ments in the class­room, make abor­tion ille­gal, ban trans­gen­der pro­ce­dures, deport Mus­lims) that they seem to have scant inter­est in allow­ing their own hearts to be changed. And that, as Lewis says, is where the Chris­t­ian walk must be aimed.
May 26, 2026
Golf Tues­day, uh oh…
#1601 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May 3, 2026 I used to tell my stu­dents before a big test that in five years they would have no rec­ol­lec­tion of what their grade was, but if they cheat­ed that stain on their char­ac­ter would still be with them. That same prin­ci­ple applies to golfers.
May 27, 2026
Bob Dylan’s 85th birthday…
#1602 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May 24, 2026 I dis­cov­ered Bob Dylan when I was 19 years old (58 years ago). There is no oth­er artist (writer or poet or actor or direc­tor or musi­cian or any oth­er cre­ator) who has had the impact on my per­son­al growth that he has had. No one can turn a phrase like Bob — each new album con­tained some sort of rev­e­la­tion for me. I became a Chris­t­ian in 1976 and I began pray­ing for him. Then, mir­a­cle of mir­a­cles, he came out with Slow Train Com­ing in 1979, a pure­ly Chris­t­ian album that shocked his fans and brought me to my knees. When I get to heav­en, if I’m still me and he’s still him (not sure how it’s going to work), I’m going to look for him — not to idol­ize but just to thank him for help­ing me along the way.
May 28, 2026
Pret­ty sim­ple for­mu­la for nav­i­gat­ing life…
#1603 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
April 10, 2026 “There is but one good; that is God. Every­thing is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” C.S. Lewis
I would add one caveat: If I am not both­er­ing to look to Him then I am, in fact, turn­ing from Him.
May 29, 2026
Please stop with the win–the–lottery prayers!
#1604 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May 5, 2026 “Prayer is not ask­ing. Prayer is putting one­self in the hands of God, at His dis­po­si­tion and lis­ten­ing to His voice in the depths of our hearts.” –Moth­er Teresa
The prop­er approach to prayer is more about what I can do for God than what He can do for me.
May 30, 2026
It does an old teacher proud!
#1605 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May 25, 2026 This poem is from one of the most tal­ent­ed stu­dents I had in my 34 years of teach­ing, Sta­cy Har­less. It is won­der­ful to see that she is real­iz­ing her gift. The poem floored me. Bless you, Stacy.
LOOKING OUT
We’ve been stand­ing here
neck craned,
eyes sky‑stuck,
wait­ing for some­thing holy to drop like rain.
Wait­ing for a sign,
a shim­mer,
a voice,
a lift.
Wait­ing for God to come down
when God keeps whispering
look out.
Not up.
Out.
Because ascen­sion isn’t escape.
It’s invi­ta­tion.
Not a dis­ap­pear­ing act
but a widen­ing one.
Jesus didn’t rise to leave us.
He rose to send us
into the places we keep pre­tend­ing we can’t see.
And still—
we stand here,
feet plant­ed,
faces tilt­ed,
hop­ing heav­en will crack open
and fix what we’re afraid to touch.
But the angels said
why are you star­ing at the sky?
As if to say:
He’s not up there anymore.
He’s out here.
In the faces you pass.
In the hands you hold.
In the neigh­bors you’d rather not notice.
In the ones who sleep on the steps
of the church you love.
Ascen­sion is not about rising.
It’s about re‑orienting.
About turn­ing your gaze
from the clouds
to the crowd.
From the promise of someday
to the ache of right now.
From the com­fort of look­ing up
to the courage of look­ing out.
Because the mir­a­cle isn’t <just> in the sky.
It’s in the street.
In the Commons.
In the everyday.
In the way we choose to stay
with the ones the world steps around.
So today,
I low­er my chin,
drop my shoulders,
and let my eyes fall level
with the peo­ple right in front of me.
I stop wait­ing for heav­en to descend
and start noticing
how heav­en keeps show­ing up
in the ones who nev­er look up at all.
Ascen­sion isn’t about where Jesus went.
It’s about where we’re will­ing to go.
Not up.
Out.
Always out.
May 31, 2026

San Anto­nio Spurs for­ward Vic­tor Wem­banya­ma, cen­ter, cel­e­brates with team­mates after defeat­ing the Okla­homa City Thun­der in the West­ern Con­fer­ence finals of the NBA bas­ket­ball play­offs series Sat­ur­day, May 30, 2026, in Okla­homa City. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)

Fam­i­ly Sun­day, what a weekend!

#1606 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May 31, 2026 It is dan­ger­ous to equate my own per­son­al hap­pi­ness with the move­ment of God’s Spir­it in my life. My pri­or­i­ties are not God’s pri­or­i­ties (although I am try­ing to align mine that way). But some­times it falls togeth­er. First off, we had Zack and Kallie and the girls over for din­ner, and that is one of my favorite ways to eat din­ner. Then Karen and I watched the Spurs become West­ern Con­fer­ence cham­pi­ons. I know that God is every bit as con­cerned with the OKC fan’s dis­ap­point­ment as He is with my joy, but that does­n’t mean I have to con­tain it. Ask any Spurs fan — they are like a fam­i­ly and we are invit­ed to join. Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your unmer­it­ed favor direct­ed towards me

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