May 9, 2022
#190 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 My guest left after a four day visit. It was great seeing an old friend, but I also love being alone. If stillness is optimal as a contact point, it follows that solitude is optimal for communion. Hello, Lord.
May 10, 2022
This is a cool golf experience…
#191 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 I partnered with an older man who loves golf but is in failing health. He told me early in the round that he doubted if had too many more rounds of golf in him. Then he made a hole in one on #17. What a gracious and compassionate God we have! I had a beer to celebrate with him and then realized I had completely forgotten a lunch date I had with a former student, a wonderful young man who has become a youth pastor in Kansas. Do I blame my airheadedness or God’s grace?
May 11, 2022
#192 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 “Do not go gentle into that good night./ Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” –Dylan Thomas I will be attending a funeral tomorrow. It occurs to me there are more funerals than weddings in my future. I find I couldn’t disagree with Mr. Thomas more. I want to go as gently as possible without one ounce of rage. Our fundamental difference is the Light–he sees it as dying and I see it as swallowing up darkness. Or, as another Dylan (this one closer to my heart) put it: “Just remember that death is not the end.”
May 12, 2022
#193 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thursday, April 7, 2022 Every time I am ruffled, every time I am put off, every time I even have negative thoughts about another human being–I have abandoned the mind of Christ and enclosed myself in my own small world. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1)
May 13, 2022
This is a good post for a Friday evening…
#194 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Saturday, April 2, 2022 “…the soul ain’t nothin’ but the car Love drives…” from Laying My Burdens Down by Willie Nelson and family. Isn’t that something? I think of my soul as the inner Dallin, the real me, not necessarily the one the world sees. I just want to hop aboard Willie’s car.
May 14, 2022
#195 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 Tonight the prayer is so simple and beautiful and precise: Dear Lord Jesus–let Your love fill my heart and flow through me to others.
May 15, 2022
#196 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Monday, April 4, 2022 Karen and I are watching a series called The Chosen, which is the story of Jesus’s ministry as seen through the eyes of Peter and Mary Magdalene and Matthew and others. I have usually shied away from Hollywood’s depiction of Jesus, even highly realistic ones like The Passion of Christ. But this show has done a wondrous job of conveying Jesus’s humanity and His power and His effect on people. I haven’t been as affected by a religious movie since Ben Hur. I highly recommend The Chosen.
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