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GOD’S MYSTERY
Today I am practicing walking with the Holy Spirit moment-by moment awareness of the HS presence and power in my life. My goal is to let the HS change my wanter and my canner. Sometimes when we are deep in our grief we feel that God has abandoned up also. It is not God but…
Read MoreDREAMS LOST
Today was a work at home day. No clients but banking, helping mom & staining. After I waited until this afternoon for it to warm up, I accomplished very little before it started to rain. The good news was that I was able to read the whole chapter six in WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS. Barnes talks of…
Read MoreGRATITUDE OF GOD’S GRACE
As I read WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS, by Barnes he talks of “being abandoned by health. We often feel like God needs me. But alone with my Bible and my prayers we find out that God doesn’t need me. I need him, even to be alive today. And I am grateful every day when he gives…
Read MoreIs God Arbitrary?
Today Barnes in WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS, he talks about JOB and wonders if God is arbitrary. If you haven’t read JOB, take a peak at it. Here is a righteous man who was “blameless and upright, one who feared Good and turned away from evil: (Job 1:1) One day, apparently to prove a point to Satan,…
Read MoreWHAT ARE YOU BETTING ON?
Today the weather kind of matches my mood and this reading. In WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS, I read “In the economy of God, failure is not the opposite of success. It is breaking even with life. Failure is refusing to risk what will happen if we follow Jesus.” Do we give Jesus our all? Are we…
Read MoreThe Measured Life
In the book that I am reading, slowly….”When God Interrupts” by M.Craig Barnes, he talks of even from day one, we are Measured. When a baby is first born, the baby is cleaned up and measured. Unfortunately we are Measured by the world’s standards. How much do we weigh? How tall are we? What is…
Read MoreDoes God Change His Mind?
Does God Change His Mind? Barnes leads out in WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS, talking about Jonah not wanting to go to Nineveh. Jonah says to God, ” I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and ready to relent from punishing.”. Jonah knew that the people in…
Read MoreJust Show Up
Just Show Up. In “When God Interrupts” Barnes talks about the most important thing we do is to show up. We are responsible to show up with a vision of what God is doing in the world. Right now, I am sitting in my chair, drinking my “special” coffee, reading a bit from “When God…
Read MoreTrusting in the Journey
As I continue steeped in grief of the loss of my cousin, my friend, Barnes says in WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS, he talks of the long journey with God being really important. We have to learn how to trust God and the journey is hard. We find ourselves twenty miles south of where we thought we…
Read MoreGetting Back on Track
It is so hard to get back on track after you have been gone. There is lots to do but I am getting there. Continuing my reading WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS, Finding New Life Through Unwanted Change by M.Craig Barnes. He starts of this section by talking about when life is disappointing. He says that often…
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