Today is just one of those days.
Let me start by saying that yesterday was a tough day for me.
Work did not go well.
My exercise and diet has been way off and I am not feeling well.
I spent some of my day mulling over a friendship that I am having a hard time dealing with following an incident that I interpret as a betrayal of said friendship….although I deep down know that this persons heart is in the right place and I am just too stressed to sort things out logically in my own fat head.
I spent last night down at the Brewhouse (wife kicked me out because of Bunko) sipping on a cold one, watching the Wings and Pens in the Stanley Cup and thinking.
Thinking…How do I sort this out? Where do I start?
I always here about God speaking to people. Sometimes through scripture, maybe in a weird place, while working out…whatever. I just don’t seem to hear it a lot.
Maybe because I tend to be Mr. Obvious and look for a big poster hanging in the bathroom or something. Or simply because I do not listen.
Well, God figured out how to reach me in my world today.
Through Blogs, and I am suspecting Twitter as the day goes on.
Joy and Pete both had posts today that hit me right upside the head. Completely addressed some of the things I had been struggling with and having a hard time dealing with.
Mo had a post that let me know that I am not the only one having a tough time out here. Her post was about the struggles of her life which in a strange way made it easier for me to deal with mine. Not that I find comfort in any way to other’s tough days, but that it is good to know that sometimes you are not alone.
Tam fired in a little humor to help out with the stress of the day ahead.
Spoken to through blogs.
It is crazy how God finds a way to reach us even when we do not want to listen.
In my case…my world.
My question today:
How has God spoken to you in a unique way?
What about me?
This is my page and my chance to share with you all the crap I dream up on a daily basis. Here are the simple facts that make up my existence..live in Nashville...avid Hockey fan (one step from face painting), father of a 6 year old (genius child- she takes after me..I mean my wife), husband (I'm pretty sure my wife would kick me out if she could figure out how), and "normal" Christian. What is normal you ask? You tell me. I think I know what normal is but then again, we all think we are the normal ones.
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June 10, 2009 at 9:37 am
I dont have an answer to that question at the moment, but just would like to say your post hit home! I too have been havign a bunch of crap renting space in my head that I know I’m just not thinking logically about.
and my grammer sucks today!
haha
thanks for the entertainment
June 10, 2009 at 10:05 am
Looks like we are on the same wave track….
And yes, God definitely speaks through blogs or twitter (in my opinion) or should I say He uses these things to get our attention. I have been called out many of times by other peoples blogs, and have also been blessed tremendously by them.
After all, God is the ultimate creator of technology, is He not?!? Who gave us our brain and creativity?!? What better method than to speak to us if we are not listening directly.
I predict that tomorrow we are both going to have great days!!!
June 10, 2009 at 3:28 pm
No doubt that Blogs have become a big part in how God speaks to me. It is so very cool that I have the privilege of connecting with other people because of blogs. The Church has no boundaries or limitations. Sometimes my online community seems closer than the community in my physical proximity.
June 10, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I figured I would return the favor! Seems you’ve already gone to bed for the night. Hope you were able to fall asleep so early!
Before Nov (this past Nov) I had never heard of twitter. Blogs, yes, but I thought they were stuffy ravings of boring people. Went to a Mercyme concert last fall & Bart Millard said they were streaming live on the internet. I remembered the next night to tune in and have been hanging on for this new ride ever since.
I have totally freaked my husband & 22 year old out with these new additions to my life!
God totally put these things in my life for a reason. If you read my profile you can see I am a recovering addict. 2 years next months. I had totally shut God out for so long. These new additions have helped me connect with the most wonderful women all over the country (including Hawaii). Men, too. Many of these women & I stay in touch daily through twitter. Even funnier was a couple of months ago I had a new follower request. I clicked on the button & it was my daughter! She still isn’t convinced, but she’s working on it.
Appreciate your comment. Hope your Thursday is blessed.
June 10, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Oh, crud. I certainly hope you are a Pens fan. We can’t be friends if you are a Redwings fan. What a series, if you don’t count Game 5! (just kidding, by the way).
June 11, 2009 at 6:47 am
I am a die hard Predators fan so I usually root against the Wings. In a finals like this I just root for really good hockey.
June 10, 2009 at 10:50 pm
i would REALLY like you to know that i estimate there are at LEAST 5 billion other humans currently living on this planet who can identify with what you are feeling! Most of the remaining 1.7 billion are likely just fooling themselves if they can’t.
it is uniquely human to have a ‘bad day’ ( week, year, lifetime) and to wonder how am i going to fix this and to feel like God might speak so clear and loudly to all the others ( Abraham , Moses, Noah, Job, Isaiah, Jesus – He just speaks to EVERYONE!!! ?) – just not to me.
You got it right – we just don’t listen very well.
He is ’speaking’ to each one of us every second of our lives. It just comes down to what we have going on in our heads at the time and what we are then able to ‘tune’ in to hearing/seeing/witnessing.
Meditative prayer involves us making a solid definite deliberate attempt to remove all of ‘our’ crap out of our heads long enough to recognise His Voice.
From personal experience i know that is just so NOT ‘easy’ to do for most of us.
It IS’ worth the efforts we put into it however.
i can think of one time in my life when i was distinctly sure i ‘heard’ Him Speak.
I was reading a book on the physics of 11 dimensional reality (a serious modern physical theory book) I had previously been spending considerable time immersed in thinking about the ‘bigger questions of life and faith and my place in it all, wondering about my ‘purpose’ in life…
As i looked out of my lounge window with the book in my hand ( Physics book, not the Bible) i had an ‘epiphany’ and as a thought entered my mind i saw, as if in a bright light, a simple Truth. One that made a deep and lasting impression on my life and my understanding and has brought me on a path that is leading closer and closer to Faith in ‘God’.
It may mean nothing to others but it meant far more than i might have expected it to mean to me.
God speaks to us most loudly when we least expect it.
love.
<B
June 10, 2009 at 11:46 pm
tonight while i was getting some stuff ready for church, i looked down at a bracelet i was wearing. it was a gift but i had never really looked at it closely.
it had psalm 145:18 written on it. “the Lord is close to all who call on Him. to all who call on Him sincerely.” He reached down and spoke to me right then.
i felt like he has been distant. but if He has been, it’s only because i, in my busyness, have failed to call on Him sincerely.
June 10, 2009 at 11:57 pm
and btw….if God twittered… i wonder what he’d say?
June 11, 2009 at 12:50 am
Somehow I don’t think God either Twitters or Blogs, but I have no doubt that he uses other people to reach out to us when we’re faltering. And those people may be folks we know and see on a daily basis, or people we encounter via blogging and twittering. That is, assuming we’re keeping ourselves open to him I think God leads us into communication with the people we need, people who can stand beside us, literally or figuratively, and offer encouragement when we most need it.
On the other hand, I also think it’s possible to spend way, waaaay too much time on the Internet, to the detriment of private time spent with God… reading scripture, praying and just “resting” in his presence.
Numerous times I’ve felt God speaking to me through Christian music. I’m sometimes stunned at how utterly appropriate the words are to my current situation. As they wash over me it’s like hearing God speak directly to me.
June 12, 2009 at 2:44 am
He twittered to me today. It was short, powerful, and quick. It also rocked my world.
June 12, 2009 at 9:58 am
Hey Joseph, I think you’ve really hit on something here. I believe God is in the communication business. He wrote the first book, he delivered the greatest sermon, and prayed the model prayer, all of which is still being shared and taught around the world today. I believe God communicates through all of his creation. Now don’t mistake me for an over-zealous tree huger…I’ve cut down my share of trees over the years. I believe He talks to us in many different ways, but almost always through other people. Songs, gifts, notes, phone calls, Twitters, blogs, e-mails, a smile at freaking Wal-Mart…they all can communicate the love of God. Thank God He can use any form of communication…I’d rather He get my attention through a blog than have to strike me blind on the road to Damascus!
June 12, 2009 at 11:45 am
is your avatar you worshiping? cool…just small Ernesto.
Seriously, I agreed with you until the Wal-Mart part