November 3, 2025
Live and in person…
#1598 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
October 22, 2025 If I see a Harrison Ford movie, I’m like “Cool, Harrison Ford.” But if I walk into a bar and see Harrison Ford, that is a Whoa! moment. When I see God’s myriad creations in a Butterfly Garden, that is like “Cool, God.” But when a Pipevine Swallowtail takes a fancy to the bush in my front yard, that is a Whoa! God moment.
November 4, 2025
Golf Tuesday on sabbatical..
#1599 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
October 19, 2025 Sometimes God will reduce me to prayer. I will have created a situation in which I am standing on the outside and the door is closed, and I want desperately to be back inside, but there is nothing I can say or do to open the door. I am reduced to prayer.
November 5, 2025
The sky above, the mud below…
#1600 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
September 27, 2025 One of the things I’m trying to learn is how to recognize and be responsive to trials and tragedies that occur in other people’s lives without getting stuck in the morass of negativity. It’s my observation that if we expect bad things to happen they are more likely to. Positive thinking is a vapid solution to life’s challenges, but there is something to be said for looking for the bright side. Dylan put it a different way: “If you cannot bring good news then don’t bring any.”
November 6, 2025
Malmgren family motto: Be tough
#1601 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
October 23, 2025 arduous — (adj.) — involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring. That’s my word for the rehab from rotator cuff surgery. (I feel like a wuss writing that–my rehab is nothing compared to what some people suffer.) What makes it so arduous is how utterly slow the progress seems. Movement of the arm invariably results in twinges of pain, yet movement is essential to healing. That is where the Lord comes in–Jesus doesn’t take away our pain, He joins us in it, and that is enough.
November 7, 2025
Que sera sera…
#1602 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
October 2, 2025 “Getting old is like climbing a mountain. You get a little out of breath, but the view is much better.” –Ingrid Bergman
One of my contemporaries groused at me about referring to us as “old” (I am 76). I have heard of denial as one of the stages of grief, but I don’t think it’s necessary for aging. The hardest part is learning to take what God gives me instead of trying to make something for myself. And the view is awfully nice.
November 8, 2025
Solid medical/spiritual advice…
#1603 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
October 17, 2025 “First do no harm” is a medical principle meaning to avoid causing more harm than good through medical intervention. It’s a pretty good operating guideline for all of my human interactions. Christ wants us to build up, not tear down. “There is one who speaks like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.” (Proverbs 12:18)
November 9, 2025
Family Sunday, like a black fly in my chardonnay…
#1604 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July 18, 2025 (I wrote this a few days before our Lake Michigan family reunion) — I have an idea for a Granddaughter Game while we are in Lake Michigan. I’m nervous about it because it could come off as stupid and lame, but my Candy Bar Christmas game was stupid and lame, and it came off rather well. God wants me to be creative in how I love my granddaughters. Teach me, Lord
The irony: It was going outside to set up this game at dawn when I fell and tore my rotator cuff. God’s ways are unsearchable. Blessed be the name of the Lord
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