Don’t you hate it when God shows up and is just so darn inconvenient?
You know how I wrote about the book of Numbers, and God’s irritating penchant for obedience on Monday?
I didn’t like that post. I thought it was booooring.
Remembering…obedience… yadda, yadda, yadda…
Well, the problem with writing a blog is that then it’s out there. And then I’m more…you know… accountable.
Numbers 9:1-12 was my devotional reading the other day.
Notice all the underlining and notes I’ve scribbled in this part of my Bible?? Hmmm…
You probably have it memorized, but in case you don’t I’ll remind you. It’s the one with the instructions about celebrating Passover and very specific instructions for the Israelites celebrating it if they were unclean.
Have you ever done a prayer walk?
Last Sunday I started a new small group study with young couples at our church using The Circle Maker curriculum by Mark Batterson. You can read more about it here.
Anyway, because this study is on prayer, and because I really do want God to transform us through this, and because I hadn’t done it in a long time, I found myself walking circles around the outside of our church, praying at 9:00 Sunday morning. Yes, I felt a little odd. I’m just sayin’.
It’s been a season of pain for people all around me.
Death, and cancer, and betrayal.
My reactions may be similar to yours:
He shared that one day he walked home to his apartment in a low-income area of the city, extremely discouraged. He was faced with complex problems and he didn’t know what to do. Continue reading
When was the last time you made an embarrassing mistake?
My answer would be, “Yesterday, thanks so much for bringing it up!”
I’ve been convinced for quite awhile that evil elves live inside my computer and conspire against me with every technological weapon at their disposal, putting their tiny pointed heads together and hatching plans for my destruction.
It’s Monday morning.
Yep, you may have had a stellar weekend picnicking in the sun, biking, going to the beach (like one of my daughters), listening to jazz outdoors in the park (like the other daughter), but now it’s Monday in all its Mondayness. And the week stretches out in front of you like a flat road across the barren pan-handle of Oklahoma.
Before you buckle down and get to work, or answer emails, or start the laundry, read on. It may make you feel better about your day.
Awhile ago I was listening to the radio and a woman called in with an experience that was, um…unbelievable except that it really happened.
The answer to the question in the title of this post is:
Nothing, as far as I can tell.
But kind of, maybe…
Here’s what got me thinking. It was Maggie’s Facebook status update recently:
We’re in that season. You know, the celebration season. Weddings, Graduations, Showers, Confirmations. And in my family, a slew of birthdays.
That means trying to come up with great gifts ideas. And I always struggle, because I want to find things that are meaningful, but also practical and, well, fun…
So with a bunch of graduations this week, I asked the experts (Katy and Maggie) what they and their friends thought were the very best graduation gifts. They took a poll and got back to me.
The answer: Target gift cards.
Booooo-ring. Practical, yes, but definitely not fun or meaningful.
This was the backdrop for our all-church worship gathering Sunday.
81 year old grandpas who really prefer the organ, and 5-year-old girls who like to twirl to the music, and 28-year-old singles for whom 10:30 a.m. on a weekend would usually be considered too early even for God to be awake.
Side by side. Singing Holy, Holy, Holy. And How Great is our God.
The other day I was walking in a “Holy Place”. I hadn’t been there in awhile. It’s a path around a lake I walked daily for years.
And along that path God has soaked up a heck of a lot of tears. Listened patiently to my rants. Grieved over my anguished cries of confusion. And accepted my praise with a smile I think.
And in the patches of Godlight along the path He prompted something in me. Lately it seems God has been reiterating the theme word, “specific”. As in spell it out kid. As in not the Cliff Notes version.
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