HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY OCTOBER 23–29, 2023

Post on 26 November, 2023 by Dallin Malmgren

Octo­ber 23, 2023
#753 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August, 2023 Empathy–the sub­ject of our Stephen Min­istry study. Atti­cus told Scout (in To Kill a Mock­ing­bird): “…you can nev­er real­ly under­stand a per­son unless you put your­self in their shoes.” That is the begin­ning of empa­thy. What stood out from our study is it’s not real­ly empa­thy until it’s expressed. It involves reach­ing out. Oth­er­wise, it’s just feel­ing sor­ry for someone.

Octo­ber 24, 2023
Golf Tues­day in the rain…
#754 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
July, 2023 Three of my senior golfer friends came over and had din­ner and sat on the porch last night. It’s fun­ny about per­spec­tive: it could eas­i­ly be seen as …old geezers hyper­boliz­ing tales. I pre­fer to see it as fel­low­ship (n.) a com­mu­ni­ty of inter­est, activ­i­ty, feel­ing or expe­ri­ence. There is a spe­cial bless­ing with senior fellowship–we know that we should appre­ci­ate and val­ue and (learn from?) these expe­ri­ences. They have become precious.

Octo­ber 25, 2023
#755 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June, 2023 My men­tor C.S. Lewis again: “An ordi­nary sim­ple Chris­t­ian kneels down to say his prayers. He is try­ing to get into touch with God. But if he is a Chris­t­ian he knows that what is prompt­ing him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all his true knowl­edge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God–that Christ is stand­ing beside him, help­ing him to pray, pray­ing for him. You see what is hap­pen­ing. God is the thing to which he is praying–the goal he is try­ing to reach. God is also the thing inside him which is push­ing him on–the motive pow­er. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So that the whole three­fold life of the three-per­son­al Being is actu­al­ly going on in that ordi­nary lit­tle bed­room where an ordi­nary man is say­ing his prayers.”

Octo­ber 26, 2023
#756 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August, 2023 A dis­cour­age­ment. I post every­day, but very rarely do peo­ple tell me how God spoke to them. Am I spe­cial, or am I just mak­ing this stuff up? Nei­ther, I hope. Here’s how it works for me: this morn­ing I’m sit­ting by the pool after swim­ming laps, med­i­tat­ing on hav­ing one foot in heav­en and one foot on earth, which I sus­pect is the secret to abid­ing. I look up and I see a heart, the top half filled with the sky, the bot­tom with the branch­es of a tree. Heav­en and earth, joined in love. That is how God spoke to me today.

Octo­ber 27, 2023
#757 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 Self-esteem. It is such a twin of ego that I almost want to call them the same. But they are quite dif­fer­ent. My self-esteem is built upon know­ing that I am loved: by the Tri­une God, by my fam­i­ly, by my friends. That knowl­edge, that pos­i­tive self-esteem, can only lead to one result–actively lov­ing others.

Octo­ber 28, 2023
#758 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August, 2023 Good deeds. (Paul’s epis­tle to Titus is still with me) So what con­sti­tutes a good deed? Any­time I can do some­thing to improve a sit­u­a­tion, espe­cial­ly if it involves a per­son who is strug­gling, that is a good deed. Paul pre­scribes being “…zeal­ous for good deeds..” That means active­ly seek­ing them out, scour­ing the coun­try­side for oppor­tu­ni­ties. I fall so far short of that. Teach me, Lord, to be zeal­ous for good deeds.

Octo­ber 29, 2023

Karen


Fam­i­ly Sun­day, emp­ty nest-style…
#759 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber 4, 2023 My wife turned 69 years old today. I’ve had 47 of those years with her. Lucky is just a sec­u­lar word for blessed.

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