HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY October 3–9, 2022

Post on 24 October, 2022 by Dallin Malmgren

Octo­ber 3, 2022
#337 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Mon­day, July 18, 2022 I keep com­ing back to this: the jour­ney with­in. The Holy Spir­it resides with­in me, but let’s face it, most of the time I am obliv­i­ous to Her res­i­dence. That is because I–and most human beings–are focused on the exter­nal. But we are called to make a change–not to ignore the exter­nal, but to bal­ance it. If we paid as much atten­tion to the con­di­tion of our hearts as we did to our dai­ly sched­ules, we would all be saints.

Octo­ber 4, 2022
A golf­ing miracle…
#338 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, August 19, 2022 I had an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence today. After play­ing golf in the Col­orado moun­tains, I left my cell phone and my wal­let on the roof of my friend’s car as we drove away from the course. This is about a mile down a twisty-turny moun­tain road and onto a 55 mph moun­tain high­way. What’s the two worst things you can lose on a vaca­tion? Your wal­let and your cell phone! As we pulled out onto the high­way, we heard a faint sound and my friend saw a lit­tle flut­ter in his rear view mir­ror. I real­ized imme­di­ate­ly what I had done. We found my wal­let about two hun­dred yards back, and my cell phone was still on the roof! The obvi­ous ques­tion: what kind of moron would be so care­less? But what a gra­cious God to take a poten­tial­ly dis­as­trous (for me) sit­u­a­tion and turn it into an occa­sion for grat­i­tude and appreciation.

Octo­ber 5, 2022
#339 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Mon­day, July 18, 2022 It’s fun­ny how I can read a scrip­ture that I’ve read many times ear­li­er, and it’s like I nev­er heard it before (of course, it’s the Holy Spir­it open­ing my mind). This one is explo­sive: “For it is the God who com­mand­ed light to shine out of dark­ness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowl­edge of the glo­ry of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (II Corinthi­ans 4:6). If that does­n’t explain the Trin­i­ty, I don’t know what will.

Octo­ber 6, 2022
#340 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Mon­day, August 29, 2022 Some­times it hits me–I can­not even imag­ine how good God is.

Octo­ber 7, 2022
#341 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sun­day, August 7, 2022 I have been struck late­ly with how impor­tant it is that I not wor­ry about what oth­er peo­ple think of me. God has impressed upon my heart that it is equal­ly impor­tant that I not put much stock in what I think about myself–good or bad. Those thoughts are fluctuations…dust in the wind. St. Paul says “…I con­sid­er every­thing a loss because of the sur­pass­ing val­ue of know­ing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.” (Philip­pi­ans 3:28)

Octo­ber 8, 2022
#342 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, August 26, 2022 Well, all four of my sis­ters have now asked me to drop them from my email list for my dai­ly posts. That sad­dens me. On a per­son­al lev­el, it feels like they are dis­in­ter­est­ed in who I have become. But that’s my ego talk­ing and I’ll get over that. What both­ers me is that on a spir­i­tu­al lev­el there is not even a spark of inter­est. About spir­i­tu­al things in gen­er­al, not nec­es­sar­i­ly chris­t­ian. I think of lines from Wordsworth: “The world is too much with us; late and soon,/ Get­ting and spend­ing we lay waste our powers…”

Octo­ber 9, 2022
#343 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednes­day, August 10, 2022 “…for the things which are seen are tem­po­rary, but the things which are not seen are eter­nal.” (2 Corinthi­ans 4:18) Think of that! All of the seen things in my life–my fam­i­ly, my pos­ses­sions, my whole history–are intend­ed to be a train­ing ground to devel­op the unseen things…like love, peace, patience, kind­ness, etc.–which are going to be with me for­ev­er and ever. Kind of jars my sense of perspective…

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