HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY. October 14–20, 2024

Octo­ber 14, 2024
#1218 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 2, 2024 Mor­gan Free­man in a movie: “Com­par­i­son is the thief of joy.” If I mea­sure myself against some­one else, the like­ly result is van­i­ty or envy. God does not want me to set any stan­dard but His own, which is Jesus Christ. Any­thing else is striv­ing after wind. I will con­tin­u­al­ly fall short, but I will con­tin­u­al­ly press on. That is joy.

Octo­ber 15, 2024
Golf Tues­day, navigating…
#1219 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 16, 2024 Anoth­er rea­son that golf is a spir­i­tu­al exer­cise: it illu­mi­nates the tru­ism that what I intend and what I accom­plish are often two entire­ly dif­fer­ent things. My chal­lenge is to accept that dis­so­nance with equanimity.

Octo­ber 16, 2024
#1220 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June 6, 2024 When­ev­er I sit on my back porch I know Some­one is with me. Karen or my fam­i­ly or my friends or Spice are just a bonus. Tonight after I got set­tled, I took a few deep breaths and said, “Wow, Lord, not much going on out here tonight.” With­in sec­onds a dynam­ic blue­jay flew along the fence line and land­ed at our bird feed­er. In anoth­er 30 sec­onds a florid car­di­nal flew into my live oak, checked out the bird­bath below, and came down for a drink. I know–this is insignif­i­cant in terms of Events Tak­ing Place on our plan­et. But I see God’s brush­strokes, and that is good enough for me.

Octo­ber 17, 2024
#1221 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 15, 2024 dis­qui­etude — (n.) — an edgy feel­ing that some­thing in your uni­verse is out of order. I have bouts of that. I sus­pect the pri­ma­ry cause is dis­cord — (n.) — dis­agree­ment or dis­ap­point­ment between peo­ple. I’m not sure there is a cor­rec­tive action. Silence and prayer seem to help.

Octo­ber 18, 2024
#1222 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 23, 2024 “Physi­cian, heal thy­self…” (Luke 4:23) The far­ther along I get, the more clear it becomes to me that the Chris­t­ian walk is an inward jour­ney. The real tar­get of Jesus’ teach­ings is the human heart. It must be trans­formed. Even if we rec­og­nize this, we can­not do it our­selves. That is why He came.

Octo­ber 19, 2024
#1223 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 4, 2024 My music tonight on my back porch is a high school band prac­tic­ing way off in the dis­tance. Boy, is that an evoca­tive sound! High school was a won­der­ful land to have a career. Inter­est­ing things were always hap­pen­ing. I am glad I have moved on, as it is pri­mar­i­ly a place for young peo­ple, and you can only keep up with the young for so long.

Octo­ber 20, 2024
Fam­i­ly Sun­day, brag­ging style…
#1224 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 10, 2024 I got to lis­ten to Har­lie (my old­est gd) for about 45 min­utes today. I learned about her vol­ley­ball teams (school and club), her friends, her pet peeves, her class­es and what she’s read­ing. I will sing her prais­es: she is full of life and clear-eyed and sweet-souled. God has blessed her rich­ly. Thank You for gift­ing my granddaughter(s), Lord Jesus.

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