October 20, 2025
When things go wrong, so wrong with you, don’t you know it hurts me too?
#1585 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
February 28, 2025 “Through love all pain is turned to medicine.” –Rumi, a Sufi mystic There is wisdom in this. First off, this is God’s bedside manner–He takes what hurts and turns it into my benefit. Second, compassionate care is love in action. Third, knowing this enables me to endure pain. That’s why we refer to Him as the Great Physician.
October 21, 2025
Golf Tuesday, slim pickings…
#1586 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
October 14, 2025 This is one of the nicest falls in Texas that I can remember, and fall is Texas’s best season–and I am consigned to watch it go by from my back porch. But it’s not so bad–things come into clearer focus when you slow them down…the smell of the air, the random visual event (husband and wife joggers just went by), the pods in my live oak tree. Wildlife is less active in the fall than in the spring, fewer and fewer golfers are going by, and there are wonderful stretches of pure stillness. Like Elijah, I hear God in the stillness.
October 22, 2025
I am not alone in this…
#1587 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August 23, 2025 I have fallen into this trap recently (see comic). I re-realize the gravity of something I did wrong to others in my past. I recognize there is value in that (humility, perspective) but it turns into a dead end. All my focus is on me. Unless God would have me reach out to a person I wronged (that is possible), the incident is gone. Thank You, Lord
October 23, 2025
…the eye of the beholder…
#1588 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
September 23, 2025 As I grow older I find I am more entertained by simple works of art than I am by mega-productions. I would rather watch the world go by on my back porch than sit through a superhero or action movie. It hearkens me back to one of my favorite marching orders from God: Simplify.
October 24, 2025
I’ve been praying that my children would grasp this…
#1589 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
September 25, 2025 From my quiet time: “For the Christian, spiritual power is always hidden inside of powerlessness, just as God was hidden and yet revealed in a defenseless baby. If God is ever to be loved and shared, God had to risk both human embodiment and human vulnerability. This is the only thing that enchants and evokes the human heart. We do not properly fall in love with concepts or theological ideas, although some do try; persons fall in love with other persons.” –Richard Rohr
Put another way, the disciples did not fall in love with the Messiah–they fell in love with Jesus.
October 26, 2025
A key to a happy life on Family Sunday…
#1590 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
October 7, 2025 God has shown me that so many of our conflicts with others–disagreements, annoyances, flat out arguments–have little to do with the precipitating event, which merely triggers underlying perceptions and attitudes that have been buried in the past and are too complex for us to recognize or comprehend. To try to unravel those issues in a conversation is fruitless. That is why unconditional forgiveness has to be at the foundation of any love relationship.
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