I used this analogy to a colleague:
I have entered a room, which I have never been in before. Oh, I have seen the door in the distance and had a perspective of what the room held and was like. Yet, four weeks ago, I opened the door and walked in. I am finding some surprises. I have looked back through the door at what I left behind and sighed.
There are tales of supposed holy sites, holy ground, where it seems conditions are opportune to experience the presence of God.
Eugene Peterson also wondered about these stories and wrote about Flathead Lake, Montana. “I sometimes wondered if something like that could be going on in this place. I sometimes wonder still.”
When we pray something happens. The one who is asking is receiving, the one who is seeking is finding. Finding what? God.
Luke 11:10
We were at 20,000 feet in a twin-engine Piper Aerostar over Charleston, West Virginia.I was flying back from a business trip to Cincinnati with my brother-in-law, Bill, in his friend’s airplane. We were heading to High Point, North Carolina where he lived . . .
The Bouvier des Flandres dog is about 28 inches high and weighs over 100 pounds. It is high energy, with a powerful muscular build and very strong willed.
One of the perks I had as a student, was that because my father worked for the Algoma Steel Corporation, it meant I could have a summer job at the Company. Yes, the money was good, however, I was assigned jobs, which I think the leadership saved up to teach us to stay in school and not even think about quitting and being hired full time.
In the small country church, I grew up in, we never practiced the liturgy of Advent and Lent. Oh, we looked forward to the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus, yet, it wasn’t until my adult years, that I was introduced to these two wonderful seasons of Christ.
Tune your ears to the world of wisdom; set your heart on a life of understanding.
Proverbs 2:2 The MSG.
On our back fence of our home, hangs a large red heart. I tracked down a blacksmith (which is not easy to do) to forge a red heart for Denise for her birthday, to hang on one of our fence panels. She loves red and she loves hearts. At times, she will ask me, “What does your heart say on this?”
