Reflections
Join Me at the Table
Today I started my day reading THEOLOGY: A COLLECTIVE STRUGGLE BY Beth Moore’s daughter Melissa. She states from Benjamin Meyer’s book “THEOLOGY…is not a private table for one but a rowdy banquet of those who gather, famished and thirsty, around Christ. The lonely work of reading and writing is not yet THEOLOGY but only it’s…
Read MoreThe Hurt Whisperer
Satan doesn’t want us to be in healthy relationship with others. He tells us that in our hurt. It is his full-time job to take advantage of us when we are vulnerable. He whispers his lies at our most difficult moments to deceive and defeat us. Whether Satan uses sin, trauma, and grief or pride,…
Read MoreWHEN THERE IS NO PLACE TO GO
The last part of the last chapter of WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS, Barnes talks of when we loose our faith. Don’t we all have moments, days or months where we wonder about all this. Some people leave the church. Some are still in church but they have lost it in their hearts. Sometimes it is a…
Read MoreGOD’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 MoreThoughts of Linda
To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude…nothing more or nothing less. It isn’t about how I think of God, but what God things of me: I am a divine choice. Today I want to choose to: Love who God loves -Be- like-minded Feel the worship moment in all circumstances Take time to…
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 MoreWhen He Became a She
Great article https://justajesusfollower.com/2016/04/22/when-he-became-a-she-walking-in-love/
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…
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