Rewired for the Journey

  I watch with amazement that no matter how often we leave and come home our puppy Cali greets us with the most enthusiastic welcome home. She wiggles and squeals and jumps around with a ruff-ruff. She will flop on her back as we then give her a little belly rub and tell her how much we love and miss her too! An unconditional love that can bring me to tears and a smile. This brought to my mind what the celebration will be like when we enter Heaven and are greeted by Jesus and our loved ones and others. It will be a magnificent celebration of epic proportions. Matthew 19:14 says, "Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs." I have thought about that verse and I think it is because children when happy will dance and sing and love without any concern about who is watching or listening or what anyone will think of them for they are completely in the moment.  I believe we will all have that child-like innocence

  I just cringed when people would say to me the Bible has contradictions in it. I would just about pass out when they would say, "Not everything in the Bible is true." A big one that scared me to death was if they told me the Bible is not infallible! Run Forrest Run! Be gone foul spirit! Now I grew up being taught the Holy Bible is God's word to the world. This is true. But the other part was nothing is wrong with the Bible because God dictated to men He choose on earth in a trance under the guidance of the Holy Spirit to write down what He said word for word. (did they have shorthand back then?) Most important of all is to never ever question the Holy Bible! Now the fear came in when I was taught to never see the Bible in any other way or you are not a Christian and are not saved. If I did not believe the Holy Bible in the right and proper way then my salvation could in some way be in jeopardy. That was very scary to me because I do want to go to Heaven and hang out wit

  As an Anglican, I use The Book of Common Prayer at different times when I pray. Now there are times I pray just from the heart as moved upon by the Holy Spirit. Now there have been moments where I had no words to pray and I groaned or sighed and just sat or kneeled in place waiting upon the Lord.  Romans 8:26-27 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words. 27. And God, who searches hearts, knows what is the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Some of my most powerful prayers have been without words but silence before the all sovereign God the Father. Isaiah 40:31 but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Other times I use the beautiful ancient prayers of the Holy Bible and some of the great saints