September 26, 2022
#330 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Saturday, August 27, 2022 Karen and I went to the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma for our 45th anniversary. Though she lacks my history with Bob, she shares an interest (we listened to his albums on the drive up and barely scratched the surface). Excepting the Bible, I think Dylan has been the most prophetic voice in my spiritual history. He spoke to me before Jesus did–kind of a “John the Baptist” thing. He confessed his faith in Jesus a couple years after I did, one of my first personal miracles. His wit and his wisdom–I thank God for Bob Dylan.
September 27, 2022
Playing golf on Tuesday is even better than writing about it…
#331 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Saturday, August 13, 2022 One of the benefits of my writing project is that issues I’ve written about will later pop up in my daily experience–and I won’t respond in the way I proposed. For example, I carried a hardness of heart toward two guys I golf with for a perceived wrong–for about four days! Where is forgiveness when I need her? Ah well, a sinner saved by grace. I sure wish I reflected more of the latter and less of the former.
September 28, 2022
#332 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Saturday, July 23, 2022 This is worth contemplating: “The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.” –George Hinckley
Or, as the Apostle Paul put it: “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.”
September 29, 2022
#333 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 Here is my evangelism: I’m not saying I gotta have Jesus, I’m saying I can have Jesus. With me. On my side. In every situation. All the time. Transforming me into a better person. What’s not to like?
September 30, 2022
#334 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tuesday, August 2, 2022 I’m listening to a tribute album put together for my friend who died. We used to play air guitar together to this song. I realize now it had a big spiritual effect on me way before I became a christian. “Looking for release from limitation?? There’s nothing much without illumination/ Can fool around with every different cult/ There’s only one way really brings results/ Get out of sour milk sea/ You don’t belong there/ Get back to where you should be/ Find out what’s going on there.” –Sour Milk Sea by Jackie Lomax
The surest path to desolation is to keep my eyes fixed on myself.
October 1, 2022
The comic is hilarious…
#335 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Monday, August 1, 2022 Does a new month bring new hope? Only in artificial ways, I suspect. My observation is that most change is gradual. But can my resolve to follow the Lord be translated into resolutions regarding diet and exercise and moderation? I seem to be battling the same health issues that I’ve been battling for years. Wretched man that I am! Thanks be to God who has already won this battle. “…walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.” (Galatians 5:16)
October 2, 2022
#336 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 What must it have been like for the apostles and all of those first believers? He had been with them, He died, He reappeared to them, He ascended, and then He was with them always. That is so out of my sightlines! But it’s evident He was with them after He ascended. I will never in all my days on earth understand the miracle of His presence…but I glimpse it.
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