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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY December 11–17, 2023

December 11, 2023 #802 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY September, 2023 My Stephen Ministry group is delving deeper into empathy. What stood out to me tonight is that I cannot be empathetic and allow my ego to be involved. My first step is to put myself in the other person’s shoes. The next step […]

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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY December 4–10, 2023

December 4, 2023 #795 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY October, 2023 “I wanna tell you people it’s a natural fact/ Every man don’t understand the Bible alike/ And that’s all, I’ll tell you that’s all/ But you better have Jesus, I’ll tell you that’s all.” –Denomination Blues by Ry Cooder There is no spiritual […]

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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY November 27-December 3, 2023

November 27, 2023 #788 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY September, 2023 As I’ve said before, God speaks to me through other writers. It is cool when a spiritual reading mirrors exactly my own life experience: “Over time I have learned two things about my spiritual quest: First of all, that it is God who […]

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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY November 20–26, 2023

November 20, 2023 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY October, 2023 The situations may be complex, but the pathway is simple: be led by the Spirit of Christ. That may seem like an either/or decision or a hopeful guess, but it is really a “learn how” development program. The basic ingredients are love and awareness […]

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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY November 13–19, 2023

November 13, 2023 #774 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY September, 2023 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” (Matthew 7:14). I am reminded of the fruitlessness of attempting to share my faith with someone who is not ready to hear it. Or, as my former muse Phil Ochs sang: “Soldiers disillusioned come […]

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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY October 30-November 5, 2023

October 30, 2023 #760 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July, 2023 “Then onward in the journey I come to understand that every hair is numbered, like every grain of sand.” –Bob Dylan. Another epitaph line. St. Paul says that nothing past present or future can separate us from the love of God in Christ […]

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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY OCTOBER 23–29, 2023

October 23, 2023 #753 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August, 2023 Empathy–the subject of our Stephen Ministry study. Atticus told Scout (in To Kill a Mockingbird): “…you can never really understand a person unless you put yourself in their shoes.” That is the beginning of empathy. What stood out from our study is it’s […]

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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY October 16–22, 2023

October 16, 2023 #746 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY July, 2023 So many people write so brilliantly about God. I love the Bible–there is no substitute for it–yet my faith has been so greatly enhanced by writers who express their views about God–about what the Bible means–about how it plays out in this world–about […]

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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY October 9–15, 2023

October 9, 2023 #739 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY August, 2022 (a year ago) I do experience some doubts about my writing project. All four of my sisters and several other relatives have asked to be taken off my email list. My own children barely acknowledge it (and then in kind of an embarrassed […]

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HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY OCTOBER 2–8, 2023

October 2, 2023 #732 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY April, 2023 Family strife. I suppose it is all around me, even in my families (I pray I am not a cause!). It’s all deep and complex and usually hidden. If I was a family counselor, I could only offer one piece of advice: read […]

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