spiritual journal
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Acceptance or Seeking
So today I prayed again, seeking God’s presence. And that is the accepted language and thought pattern. But what if it’s not all my job? I’m afraid I’ve assumed it’s my responsibility to find God – like he’s lost or hiding. What if seeking God is not such hard work? What if seeking God is Continue reading
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The Past Is Gone, But…?
Yeah, sure, the past is gone and tomorrow never comes, so just be in the moment…. live for today. In a sense that is true. But somehow the richness of life is lost when we try so hard to put away all the past. As Christians the past can become a foundation. The reminder of… Continue reading
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“Whatever….”
The new year does something to us. It stirs something in us. We always have hope for something new, even if we are doing the same things. I don’t know why we think this will magically happen. I decided to go a different direction and say ‘whatever’ to God. But it’s not quite the disconnect… Continue reading
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The Spirit of Thankfulness
What if I quit listing things that I’m thankful and just sigh, “God, thank you for my whole life?” Not as much fun, but wonderfully all encompasing. Blessings to all. Continue reading
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My Way or God’s Way
I have often noticed how we as humans do things backwards from the way God does. Is 55:8 aludes to that, and the whole chapter is about God’s work. This devotion is the result of several things I’ve read lately about people who love animals and hate people, who love a cause and kill to… Continue reading
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from E. Stanley Jones, Two Views of Christ
I don’t normally reprint something other people write, but Rev. Jones’ Victorious Living is now available for the Kindle, and I’m reading that and two other of his books again. A missionary in India during the early part of the twentieth century, he encountered the kind of non-religious society that has finally invaded our world. He was Continue reading
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