Listening to 66 Love Letters Cover to Cover ~ 2013

Friday, January 29, 2010

January 31 ... Exodus 39 - 40 "Tragedies to Reverse/Endure

Exodus 40:36 "If the Cloud did not lift, the Israelites wouldn't set out." They were stiffnecked at times but they followed a God they did not see nor hear. I've thought a lot about the quote in the chapter "How This Book Can Speak to You"...When we focus on the smaller story of our lives from our natural birth to natural death, we'll misunderstand everything that matters "Things that feel awful to you will be seen as nothing other than tragedies to reverse if possible, endure if necessary, and at all costs prevent from happening again."  Lives "curved in" on ourselves. As we close Exodus, what have you thought about as you read this book? What did God stir in your heart? For me, I'm so longing to "let go" of what currently eats at me and find His Rest. Exodus 17:6 "I'm going to be present for you." And Exodus 33:14 "My Presence goes with you and I will give you Rest." How can I find that Rest in the midst of relational and health and financial problems? As it says in 66 Love Letters, am I more interested in being rescued from my pain and problems than being rescued from the Kingdom of Darkness?

January 30 ... Exodus 36 - 38 "Weight of Holiness"

Exodus 36:1 - The Israelites were eager to work and make everything for the Sanctuary. The people couldn't give enough! No building program needed here---they gave freely from their hearts: 1,900 lbs of gold; 6,437 lbs of silver; 4,522 lbs of bronze. Whoa! That's a whole lot of architectural detail! Meaning what? 66 Love Letters: "I will do whatever it take to fully restore my family." God wants it more than I do! HE really wants to change us. "Let the weight of my holiness draw you into the delights of My Love. I still want to be with you." Amazing that it doesn't depend on what we "do." God wants to be near us in all our imperfection.

Monday, January 25, 2010

January 29 ... Exodus 33 - 35 "I Give Rest 33:17"

Exodus 33:14 - "My Presence will go with you and I will give you rest." How do I find rest in a place of relational, physical and financial problems? Moses found it and it cost him. When God said, "Leave this place for a better place and I will not go with you," Moses asked God one more time to change His mind and please go with him. As I faced a difficult day yesterday, I so thought about "God did think twice" because of Moses request. And I asked God to change His Mind about something very dear to me that involved Life in one of my children. I didn't push---He made me not want to. But I watched a Mighty God bring a little bit of Light into a dark place and it was very moving. Not only did God change His mind again in today's reading, He spoke with Moses Face-to-Face and the people watched. Wonder how they felt about that? "I'll put you in the cleft of a rock." and I'll show you My Glory, Moses. So Moses fasts for 40 days/nights---that's hard! Again, how do I find rest in this place of relational, health and financial problems in my life, this day?  No formulas, but a Strong God Who wants to be present for me, for You.  

January 28 ... Exodus 30 - 32 "Aaron let sons run WILD"

Exodus 32:31 - Please forgive the enormous sin of these idolators or ERASE me, says Moses. Timid Moses found places in his heart that became huge for the honor and advancement of God's Kingdom. Aaron let te people run WILD (32:25) while Moses stood up and said: If you are on God's side, join me in taking on the Levites (32:26). "Forgive the sin of those I lead or erase me" --- is that my heart this day? Or, am I committed to my own well-being? God keeps showing me what is in my heart if I will obey HIM --- even if freed from the slavery of Egypt and led into an unsafe wilderness. Not the next chapter the Israelites expected. So they made their own god out of a calf. Wonder what gods we are crafting? We don't have to dig it up, our Holy God will reveal it to us.

January 27 ... Exodus 28 - 29 "Man Fully Alive"

Exodus 28:29 - I just have to paraphrase this verse for my own family: I will bear the names of my children over my heart and carry them there forever, no matter what. Nothing can destroy or dismiss my Love for them.

Exodus 29:42 is so beautiful: "There I will meet you and speak to you." I wonder where our Sovereign God will meet us this day and speak? Will I recognize it's Him. Awaken our ears to be taught like a disciple. Isaiah 50:4. Wake us up! "The Glory of God is man fully alive." (Irenaeus)

January 26 ... Exodus 25 - 27 "Face Life Honestly"

Larry Crabb has studied psychology for like half a century. I first met him when he was around 35 years old and I thought he was really old then as I was right out of college. Ha. So when he says I've concluded this about life, I kind of really want to listen to someone who has seen a whole lot more than most. "Ive concluded one thing: If you face yourself honestly, if you look through a clear lens at your life in this world, hearing God speak to you in the sixty-six love letters that make up the Bible will do you more good than anything else." Face myself honestly. Look through that clear lens of The Word. And Listen!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

January 25 ... Exodus 22 - 24 "Little By Little 23:30"

Exodus 23:30 - "Little by Little." I will drive out your enemies till you increase enough to take possession. This means much to me TODAY because I want to be delivered from my problems TODAY. HE must increase; I must decrease. This is about transformation not information, isn't it? It's not about knowing it's little by little. It's all about living and walking and trusting this day that my Great God will take care of me in my wilderness where I have no water. Exodus 15:26 said: You are my Healer in my Wilderness. This is no surprise to God where I am this day. Little by Little. And I love the verse right before that: "See, I send an angel to guard you along the way and bring you to the place I prepared for you." And maybe that prepared place is really the Wilderness.

January 24 ... Exodus 19 - 21 "Carried Treasured Possession"

Exodus 19:4 - "You have seen how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself." You know I have seen it. Carried to this place. Now I need to know it for this moment cause I don't see it today and I wonder why. Treasured Possession (19:5). I believe. Help my unbelief. And then you come in a dense cloud, God. So that the people will hear YOU in Moses, and put their trust in their leader. So I hear this and want a dense cloud to come because I want my life to work that people think I trust them when I don't. It's not right that I want to make my life "work" so I will just keep silent. That's not right with God. Maybe I may have to stand up, speak up, and be silent. Maybe it's all that. IDK. And is my complaint against people? Or is it really against God?

January 23 ... Exodus 16 - 18 "PRESENT for You"

Genesis 16:15 - The Israelites had NO IDEA that the manna was God's provision for them. I wonder what's in my difficult life right now that is God's provision and if I have "NO IDEA" cause I feel so bogged down in all of it. So what did they do with God's provision? Some hoarded it...and Moses lost his temper. Moses said: These people want to kill me for WATER. And a Great and Glorious and Beautiful God says right back to Moses and me and you this day: "I'm going to be present for you." That just brings tears to my eyes that God, in all of our mess, will be present for us this day, this difficulty!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

January 22 ... Exodus 13 - 15 "Led into Wilderness"

Genesis 13:17-18 ... when Pharaoh released the people God didn't lead them down the shortest route because if they encountered war they'd change their minds and go back to Egypt. Instead, HE led them into a wilderness...what? Seems like HE would give them a break from Egypt?? Especially since I've gone through cancer, seems to me like Christians want me to experience a better route and not a wilderness experience. But God led them that way! And the people said in 14:12 - Leave Us Alone! Better to be slaves in Egypt than corpses in the wilderness. And God said in 14:14: Stand Still...God will fight your battles. I'm over here asking Him this morning what that would look like in the midst of where I am??? What do I need to let go of in my wilderness to allow God to fight for me? It's not about how strong I am anymore. HE is meeting me in my weakness. God is changing the way I relate. Crabb had a quote in the audio CD's: "I am committed to my own well being at any cost to you" and that's just not right!

January 21 ... Exodus 10 - 12 "Rescued from Pain/Problems"

Exodus 12:50-51 ... God brought the Israelites out of Egypt and it took many deaths to do it. I keep thinking about the quote: "I think I understand that the Exodus from Egypt is a picture of my being rescued from the Kingdom of darkness. BUT, I am more interested in being rescued from my pain and my problems. I can't get my mind off problems in my life. And You won't promise to deal with them to make my life better." That God rescues us from our darkness and does something about it is overwhelming.

January 20 ... Exodus 7 - 9 "Miserable"

Exodus 8:9 - "When do you want the frogs out of your palace, out of your houses?" asked Moses. "Tomorrow," says Pharaoh. Was he so stubborn that he didn't want to appear needy either? God is speaking to me right now in my life about the 66 Love Letters quote: "Detaching me from everything that numbs my sacred hunger for HIM and makes me feel hungrier for something other than God." I woke up feeling miserable this morning about my life. As I was talking to God about it, a friend texted me and said: God doesn't want you to be miserable. I quoted Hosea 5:15 to her. Then I read page 7: "I didn't create you to be miserable or empty." My plan is for you to share my joy." So I'm setting you free and I'm so grateful to HIM cause I think I've made a mess of life. Am I trusting God's Power to enter my story today? I need Him so!

Monday, January 18, 2010

January 19 ... Exodus 4 - 6 "Life Gets Worse" 5:23

Exodus 4:14 - I stutter...can't speak well in front of people. God becomes angry---makes me wonder how much I anger God? And God's response: "Tell your brother and I will act as your mouth." I love that God didn't give up on him. There were some places in Moses' heart where Moses loved success more than he loved God. Exodus 5:23 seems to be an example; "From the moment I spoke in your Name, things have gotten worse." What does rescue look like? As I have become older, ahem, more mature, my definitions of Christianity are changing. I wonder if we miss being rescued a lot because we don't recognize it is actually God. I wonder how many times in our day that we think if we do the right thing, then life is going to get better. It may not...it didn't for Joseph not until he was 30 or so...

A question for each of you...
As we close the book of Genesis, what is one thing that God continually brought to your mind as you listened to Him in the Book of Genesis?

Thursday, January 14, 2010

January 17 ... Genesis 48 - 50 "Do I Act for God"

Gen 49:6 "I want no part in my two sons' bitter feuds." If we really love, aren't we going to stand in the way (whatever that looks like---no formulas) of our children and say---that's not right with me and that's not right with God. And I love you enough to move into your life. What happened in Israel's heart? Why could he feel like he lost everything if he lost Ben and Joseph? Here is a man of God who is flawed. We all live with our depravity. Why would God put this story of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph in Genesis? What courage, what passion, what a mess at times. But they lift us to the Higher Story of a Grand God they all did set their hearts right to follow, only poorly at times. Today, my son is getting married so we've shared a lot of stories and toasts and love this weekend. This mom has thought a whole lot about how I've parented and that's a hard thing to take a look at---your failures and God's rescues. My son is an awesome young man and I so want him to find his own Beautiful God that he has followed to this chapter. Today's reading: "Do I act for God?" Nothing can destroy me in my relationships. I must find places in my heart to offer true love and joy over the ones I adore. Pray for our family as I renew vows in my heart and listen to the ones my son will take before his father and Holy God!

January 16 ... Genesis 46 - 47 "I'm Listening God"

Genesis 46:2 - such a sweet verse. "Jacob! Jacob!" And Jacob replies: "Yes, God I'm listening." And our Beautiful God says: "Don't be afraid. I am going with you down to... ." You know it's our oldest son's wedding weekend to the love of his life. In just a few short hours he will take a vow before God and leave us forever. He will be indelibly marked for life. And the prayer of my heart every day before God will be 2Tim 4:7 for both of them! There are parts of me that doesn't want this to happen. I have to let him go. And God is behind this! And more than anything I want to listen to God this day and what HE is saying to me! I wonder what HE will say...

January 15 ... Genesis 43 - 45 "BONUS from God"

Genesis 43:14 And they were afraid of what Joseph thought that the money was back in their saddlepacks. When you do the right things in life, should we be afraid of failure? I love the response of Pharaoh's servant in The Message: "Your God must have given you a BONUS." Wonder if I think that way when such good stuff happens to me? And when Joseph finds the chalice that was planted in Ben's bag, I thought the brothers response was so interesting: "God is behind this, exposing how bad we are." I've been thinking a lot about God exposing me for who I really am that results in such repentance and rest and that's right---it shouldn't be guilt that condemns but guilt that frees us up! ... And when Joseph says to them "come closer" and don't feel bad, "God was behind it. God sent me here. It wasn't you who sent me here but God. He set me in place as a father to Pharaoh and a rulter of all Egypt." Ooooh! That so stirs me up to reflect on things gone wrong in my world...and to know this night that God was behind it. And I was sobbing by the time Joseph wept over each brother in 45:14 and then they could speak and move and be free. What healing! What a beautiful thought for me! Am I weeping over those who have betrayed me and hurt me? Like the guy who raped me. I so want to find a better place in my heart and live that way!

January 14 ... Genesis 41 - 42 "Double in Land of Sorrows"

Genesis 41:57 - How did Joseph go from such an arrogant twenty-something to a humble thirty-something? When he interpreted Pharaoh's dream with God's help, and told the Head Ruler to look for someone wise and experienced. I wonder if he had any thoughts that were screaming in his head----Pick Me! Gen 41:57 says that "the whole world came to buy supplies during the famine." Talk about success! How would you feel to be in that position. For being such a young guy, God must have got hold of Joseph in those prison years to rid him of living for ambition. So impressed with what God did with this guy. And there's a window to Joseph's soul when he names his two boys: Manasseh meaning FORGET my hardships and my home. I looked up the Hebrew word for "forget" and it means God allowed him to forget. God put a wager on it that He would forget about those hard days in pits and prisons. It's an active present verb. It happened---he forgot the horror. But how I love Ephraim's name meaning "double prosperity." "God has prospered me in the land of my sorrow." I love it that Joseph didn't make it look better than it was---it was very sorrow-filled what happened to him. He didn't minimize it and say God is good all the time. He lived in his sorrow and watched God prosper Him. Oh, that I might learn a tad more what that means to embrace my sorrows and let God do His perfect work. And if it's double prosperity, praise God! That's up to Him! I just want to live well in the land of my sorrows which are many right now. I'm a bit nostalgic and evaluative in watching my oldest child marry his college sweetheart this week. And I'm in awe of a Beautiful God Who has given me so much in the land of my own sorrows. Wow. This thought of living well in the land of our sorrows really touches deep places in me. Wonder what it will look like to live that out? No formulas in the land of sorrows but there is God's Hand stretching out inviting us all to more. My prayer is that we all find "more" today. May He give you double for your sins as you repent---that's Isaiah 40:2.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

January 13 ... Genesis 38 - 40 "Joseph's Rescue Lands Him in Prison"

Genesis 39:2 - God was with Joseph. Oooh how I want that for my life. And even though in a palace behind closed doors, Joseph knew in his heart he could not violate the trust of his God and sin against Him. Never! So he ran from temptation. Wonder how I "let go" of my temptation. Am I running from it? Seems like yesterday I was vindicating myself in a situation---stagnating and it stinks! So there goes Joseph to jail...and verse 39:20 says "God was with Joseph. God reached out in Kindness." That's so tender! I would so have loved to speak with Joseph in the prison and ask him how he was thinking now about God and that rescue caravan. His rescue landed him in prison. But God was with Him so what does it matter where you are---palace or prison. Then, what maybe two years later, an opportunity to interpret Pharaoh's dream comes. Joseph interprets it right! Gen 40:23 - FORGOTTEN a.g.a.i.n. That's 3 major times...forgotten by his brothers; forgotten by the cupbearer; forgotten by Pharaoh. Joseph found something within those four prison walls that could not keep him bound. He found Peace. He found Rest. Am I looking for my circumstances to change or for my heart to find rest in the midst of my mess. Joseph found a good God who didn't deliver Him out of his prison...at least not yet.

January 12 ... Genesis 35 - 37 "What's Most Alive in Me? Go Back to Bethel"

Genesis 35:1 "Go back to Bethel," Jacob! You've just "missed" your daughter Dinah unbelievably! Go back, says God. Go back to the place where God answered you. This so speaks to my heart this day as it was exactly four years ago that we received very disturbing news that rocked my world. I didn't want to leave the church and people we so loved! God wasn't in it for us. The very first couple of pages of 66 Love Letters, Larry quotes Hosea 5:15 - "in their misery, they will earnestly seek Me." So true! I sought God at that moment in my life like never before and HE showed up like never before. It's been the best thing that ever happened to my walk with HIM. Really. I LOVE Genesis 35:10 where God says HE revealed Himself A.G.A.I.N. I AM THE STRONG GOD! ... then the story of Joseph is so intriguing and this time I notice a little more that Joseph was arrogant, giving bad reports to his dad. I so wanted to report the man in front of me at Costco tonight for he was terribly rude in what he said to me. It's a peek at Joseph's heart that is going to change. A peek at my own heart in Costco when sin showed up but so did God! It seems like I'm always having to go back to Bethel! What's most alive in me this day? What's most alive in you? What am I doing with matters of my heart?

January 11 ... Genesis 32 - 34 "400 Mounted Men---I Will Move to Love My Brother"

Genesis 32:7 - Jacob panicked and prayed. He said to God: "I don't deserve your Love & Loyalty. I went from the clothes on my back to 2 camps." There is something so inviting to me about Jacob's words. God is stirring his heart to trust in his desperation as 400 men are pursuing him led by his brother who threatened to kill him. Having known violence myself, I would panic. But how I love it when in Gen. 32:24-25, Jacob wrestles with God. I've thought about this verse so much going through cancer and God allowing it. It has been 150 years of Jacob wrestling on and off to make him into Israel this day. He wrestled with God and God came through. And what's one of the first things that Israel does? He looks up in Gen 33:1 and sees 400 mounted men and he moves to honor his wicked brother. Wow. Esau ran and embraced him. For those in my life who maybe don't see eye-to-eye with me, I hope we can embrace one day soon for I must say that God has put love in my heart. I'll keep on praying for them, for me, for you. God loves that, doesn't He?
PS - I was going to wait til tomorrow to ask this---but what is most alive in Jacob's heart? He had great moments at Bethel. But in these last verses today, his daughter is raped and Jacob remained quiet about it. Oh my goodness! That's not right with God! I was raped when I was 16 and my parents remained quiet and I had to wrestle with it for years and still do in some ways. But God will make everything right one day and I know that! But here's a man named Israel who is still acting like Jacob the deceiver and God just got hold of him. He's going to change right before our eyes cause God is all over him and he can't stay where He is. Praying today that God will be all over us this day and we can't stay wherever it is we are that is not right with Him.

January 10 ... Genesis 30 - 31 "Live Now in Tension Between Anguish and Hope"

Gen. 30:6 - Here's Rachel explaining her actions as truth, saying "God took my side and vindicated me." So Jacob slept with Bilhah. It was cultural norms. Circumstances turning out right do not prove the will of God. Some Religions don't want Christianity to invade culture. It INVADES. HE reminds: Gen 31:12 "I see all that Laban did to you...I am the God of Bethel where you made your vow." I think this morning of all the vows all of us have made before God. God sees what's happening in our lives. I may not like what's happening... but HE sees it and HE will take care of it someday. One day, HE will right every wrong. I have to let go. "You must live now in the tension between A.N.G.U.I.S.H. and H O P E." 66 Love Letters. One Fine Day!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

January 9 ... Genesis 27 - 29 "Thinking Way-Too-Shallow About Sin"

Genesis 27:41 - Esau plans to kill Jacob for stealing his blessing. Laban defrauds Jacob and gives him the wrong wife. Oh my goodness! These guys are so deceitful! And what does God do? HE shows up in Genesis 28:13 which says God was right before Jacob. That is so encouraging to me that it wasn't when Jacob had his act altogether. "I am your God...I'll stick with you until I've done everything I promised you." And it took about 150 years in Jacob's life for him to become Israel. I keep thinking about how God said earlier that everyone is corrupt from their youth. 66 Love Letters: "Adam and Eve made the same choice you've been making since you were a kid, to protect yourself from pain and to be in control of your own pleasure, to negotiate with Me to get what you want out of life. That decision messed up everything in Eden, just as it still is messing up your life." I think I may think way too shallow concerning the sin in my life. It's like getting chlorine out of water. Praise God HE has taken care of our sin problem. One sentence in 66 Love Letters sticks out to me today: "Don't be afraid of failure or you will live for success. Don't be afraid that things in your life will go wrong---they will---or you will live for comfort."

January 8 ... Genesis 25 -26 "Caught Up in the Larger Story"

Gen 25:7 "Abraham died happy"…but he had to see that things in Jacob and Esau’s lives were not right. I like that about Abraham and where he is in his life right now--- that his happiness didn’t depend on his children turning out right. He ended his life well. Abraham somehow got caught up in that Larger Story than his own mess which he helped to create in his sons. Oh that our sins drive us to a Grand God with a Grand Plan!

January 7 ... Genesis 22 - 24 "Letting Go of What I Love More than God"

Gen 22:11 - “I’m listening.” Am I really listening to the Grand Story, one that is much bigger than my concerns? God laid out a plan for Abraham to take his son’s life. Abraham was listening and He did what God said because there was a Larger Story than just Abraham and Isaac. Is this the same Abraham who had continually passed off his wife for his sister? Something had changed in those years as he watched Isaac grow up---Isaac, the Love and Laughter of his life. Abraham was willing to let go of what he loved the most in this life. What do I love more than God? Abraham is falling forward on a very Good God.

January 6 ... Genesis 19 - 21 "Kind to Strangers But Distant At Home"

Gen 19:3 - Lot was way-too-kind to the angels only to offer his virgin daughters to mongrels to protect the angels. Whoa. God's patience in these chapters is overwhelming. And it happens today too...it's easy to be kind to strangers and yet distant at home not willing to work through things---silent but not very loving. Gen 19:16 - Lot was dragging his feet to do what was true. Will I drag my feet today? God have mercy on all of our sin. Something so stirred deeply in me when Hagar got thrown out of Abraham's entourage. Wow. What moved me was Gen 21:19 - God opened her eyes to see in the midst of her desert. And as for her boy, God was on his side. Wouldn't we all love to know that God is on the side of our kids---WELL HE IS! Still thinking about yesterday's verse Gen 16:13 - YOU are the God Who sees me. YOU are the God Who opens our eyes. I think I'll pray that God open our eyes to see what's really going on in our deserts.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

January 5 ... Genesis 16 - 18 "You are the One Who Sees Me"

Gen. 16:1 - "God didn't see fit" to do this _______ for me so I'll help Him along a little bit. Oh my! How I do things like Hagar...God hasn't grown my ministry so I'll strategize and do this _____. I don't want to live making things happen that God hasn't made happen. I LOVED Gen 18:1---God showed up when Abraham was just sitting at the door of his house---just sitting. But his heart was right with God while he sat. And I am so stirred by the humble (immoral) Hagar, a nobody, just a servant, yet she knew God by Name and said such touching words for me: "YOU are the One Who sees me. HE saw me, then I saw!" He sees me right now sitting on my red couch; I pray we will all see a little different today. Just prayed that the ONE Who sees you this moment will show up for you this day and you have eyes to see and ears to hear Him.

January 4 ... Genesis 12 - 15 "God is Shaking My Foundation"

Gen. 1:1 God told Abram: Leave your country, your family, your father's home. Abram left just as God said. That struck a chord of fear in my heart as I put Abram up on a pedestal. We left our home of 33 years last year and things haven't quite turned out like I had hoped. So what do you do when things go wrong? Gen 12:10 Hard famine hit and Abram came up with a strategy to say his wife was his sister and protect his life. Pedestals and pillars crumble. God doesn't want our strategy to make our life work better, does He? Gen 15:1 "I'm your Shield. Your reward will be GRAND." And what does that mean? Gen 15:13 "your descendants will be beaten down and enslaved for 400 years." Those words of imprisonment from God fell on the ears of Gen 15:6 an Abram who BELIEVED GOD and God declared Abram "was set right with God." Our God is fierce and faithful and HE is changing my definition of reward and what I think is good and right. Just received a text: "We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God Who is shaking them." (Charles West).

January 3 ... Genesis 8 - 11 "Despise Darkness/ Cover Up with Grace"

Gen 9:3 - The two boys "covered their father's nakedness," his sin. I am touched by Shem and Japheth, Noah's two younger sons. They didn't scoff or spurn or shoot sarcasm their dad's way for his sin, rather they covered it up. I think God is saying to me to despise the darkness I see around me, cover it up with grace, and move in to really love people. Am I offering grace today or keeping a cool distance, a safe dismissiveness?

Saturday, January 2, 2010

January 2 ... Genesis 4 - 7 "No One Has Ever Seen Their Face"

Genesis 4:6 - "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?" When my world, my relationships tell me what they see going on in me, do I really listen? God asks so many questions throughout the Bible to get people to look at their hearts. I hope I ask more questions this year rather than telling.

January 1 ... Genesis 1 - 3 "Brooding Over My Mess"

Genesis 1:2 - the Spirit of God is brooding over the waters like a bird over its nest until new life stirs beneath the sheltering wings. That so touches me. I know where I've come from and the viciousness of my heart like Peter in cutting off the ear of the soldier. Wanting something way too much and sometimes more than wanting the Love of my God. I don't want that to sway the fray of my heart in 2010---not ambition for ministry; not to be somebody; but for a Beautiful God Who was brooding on Day #1 and Who still broods this first day over all the darkness in my life and is turning it into Light! Psalm 18:28. I find such comfort knowing HE is brooding over my mess to bring new Life in me in 2010.

Friday, January 1, 2010

LOVE LETTER #1 - Genesis - January 1-17

Someone once said: If we want to get to know God through His Word, then nothing matters more than listening to Him. May we listen to the Voice of Love this year. Leave a comment(s) about the Book of the Bible we are reading. We will be reading Genesis from January 1st through the 17th. Feel free to comment on any day when God stirs something in your heart. What lingers for you? I'm praying Titus 1:1 for all of us that the knowledge of the Truth leads us to godliness---changed lives---in our hearts, in our world.