Hey Friends, More thoughts tonight -- Here's a question - Why does God want to bring us into a spacious place? Why do we need the room?....maybe it's space to be curious and ask questions. If we are hemmed in and swallowing one person's view (speaker up the front of the plane) there is no room to be curious and allow God to teach us personally. To stretch us. To allow us to go off the pavement (as Barbara Brown Taylor says - see my resources at the end of the letter). Don't just take in one persons teaching, ask God questions yourself and watch him lead you to answers or just open possibilities.
Thank you for this picture. Your comment I will reply , “ Taking a walk with God in a spacious place where we chat and he shows me what and who he has made and I enjoy it.” hit home with me wondering how good am I at doing this? Am I simply carving out a time of prayer and Bible study or am I allowing God to walk with me through the day. Toes officially stepped on. 😊
The other question, how have you discovered an aspect of God through creation this week? The desk I sit at looks out over my front yard. I noticed a flower that looked to be sitting in the tree. We have lived here going on three years and I never noticed it before. It was just a tree with green leaves in the spring and and brown ones in the fall. So I stepped outside and walked up closer to the tree. There was, in fact, a flower growing in the tree. I did some research and, apparently, my tree is a Tulip Poplar and has beautiful yellow flowers. I praised God for the beauty and thanked Him for showing it to me. How blind I have been for 2 years to have never seen it before. Just as God opened my eyes to His beauty around me, He can open my eyes to what His word has to say to me and not be confined by the traditions and rituals of man.
Hey Carol - thanks for your feedback and sharing what spoke to you. I love your reaction to the 'walking with God' picture - I spent years doing time of prayer and bible study without the emotional tie with God/Jesus/Spirit. Mainly because my church taught me to discount emotions and not to lean on them - but I am learning that God is meant to be experienced because he invites us to a relationship with him and in relationships we experience joy, sadness, fun, love and loads of other things. They are all emotions and experiences. I don't want to limit my relationship with him to 30 minutes in a morning devotional - how dry, how life sapping rather than life giving. Boy was I missing out on so much - even today God showed up in my walk in a couple of ways - a tiny fantail danced in front of me for ages - I just stopped and God and I watched together.
I Love how God showed you the little flower in your tree - that is so cool!!! I am just seeing God in a totally different light in the last couple of months - he is love, everything about him is love - his justice is his love, his righteousness is his love.
Hey Friends, More thoughts tonight -- Here's a question - Why does God want to bring us into a spacious place? Why do we need the room?....maybe it's space to be curious and ask questions. If we are hemmed in and swallowing one person's view (speaker up the front of the plane) there is no room to be curious and allow God to teach us personally. To stretch us. To allow us to go off the pavement (as Barbara Brown Taylor says - see my resources at the end of the letter). Don't just take in one persons teaching, ask God questions yourself and watch him lead you to answers or just open possibilities.
Thank you for this picture. Your comment I will reply , “ Taking a walk with God in a spacious place where we chat and he shows me what and who he has made and I enjoy it.” hit home with me wondering how good am I at doing this? Am I simply carving out a time of prayer and Bible study or am I allowing God to walk with me through the day. Toes officially stepped on. 😊
The other question, how have you discovered an aspect of God through creation this week? The desk I sit at looks out over my front yard. I noticed a flower that looked to be sitting in the tree. We have lived here going on three years and I never noticed it before. It was just a tree with green leaves in the spring and and brown ones in the fall. So I stepped outside and walked up closer to the tree. There was, in fact, a flower growing in the tree. I did some research and, apparently, my tree is a Tulip Poplar and has beautiful yellow flowers. I praised God for the beauty and thanked Him for showing it to me. How blind I have been for 2 years to have never seen it before. Just as God opened my eyes to His beauty around me, He can open my eyes to what His word has to say to me and not be confined by the traditions and rituals of man.
Hey Carol - thanks for your feedback and sharing what spoke to you. I love your reaction to the 'walking with God' picture - I spent years doing time of prayer and bible study without the emotional tie with God/Jesus/Spirit. Mainly because my church taught me to discount emotions and not to lean on them - but I am learning that God is meant to be experienced because he invites us to a relationship with him and in relationships we experience joy, sadness, fun, love and loads of other things. They are all emotions and experiences. I don't want to limit my relationship with him to 30 minutes in a morning devotional - how dry, how life sapping rather than life giving. Boy was I missing out on so much - even today God showed up in my walk in a couple of ways - a tiny fantail danced in front of me for ages - I just stopped and God and I watched together.
I Love how God showed you the little flower in your tree - that is so cool!!! I am just seeing God in a totally different light in the last couple of months - he is love, everything about him is love - his justice is his love, his righteousness is his love.