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Kick Back
Do you feel guilty if you allow yourself a few minutes' luxury of daydreaming? there's always something to do, isn't there? Paul MacCready once stated in a speech:
"The only ideas I've ever had have come form daydreaming, but modern life keep people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled, by someone else--at school, watching television....You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream."
Schedule it on your calendar if you have to, but carve out some time when you can put your feet up and stare out the window. Take an hour and go sit quietly under a tree, with no book, no companion and no agenda.
One important idea that might come to you while there is that there is nothing you face which is bigger or more powerful than our God.
So go ahead. Kick back and try to imagine anything--anything--bigger than God. Then strengthen yourself with the image of God wrapped around you.
What comfort!
--Rocky Henriques
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Music From The Fire
Someone long ago wrote of sitting by a fire. The writer imagined the noises which came from the wood as it burned were imprisoned songs, finally brought to freedom by the flames.
The birds had sung while sitting on the branches of the tree. The wind had pushed its way through, making its own music. The rain had written a melody which sank deep into its roots. A child had played and sang in its shade. All these notes soaked into the wood, hidden away in the trunk.
They were hidden away until the flames set them free one evening chilly enough to warrant an open fire.
As the years pass, our spirits take in many different melodies of life. They may become trapped, hidden away by busyness, by apathy, by ignorance. The flames of adversity can serve as a wonderful tool in the Hands of God, releasing the music inside of us.
We don't have to just "pass through" life; we can gather songs along the way, storing them up for the day when we will need to hear them most.
"Wait for the Lord, and He will deliver you."
Proverbs 20:22b
--Rocky Henriques
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My Sign of Faith
by Robin Montgomery Williams
"Lord, just give me a sign! Make these eyes see and I will believe!"
I rearranged my living room last week. It's just one of those things I do occasionally to combat a dirty house and extreme boredom, and I am quite sure it is the one and onlly thing I do that drives my husband crazy....
It is now one week later and I sit in my reading chair experiencing God on day two or unit seven in Mr. Blackaby's Bible study [Editor's note: Robin is referring to "Experiencing God."] Today's lesson is ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD REQUIRE FAITH. As I finish reading, my eyes drift up to my fireplace. Hanging above the mantle is what I only half-jokingly refer to as my "sign of faith." It is an antique headboard with big iron letters fixed to it spelling out FAITH. What a wonderful visual!
As I admire my very own sign of faith, I begin to think back on the day I first saw it...I was driving down Main Street lost in a spiritual muddle and refusing to wait for directions when I spotted it in a store window. I just had to have it! So...I forked out $300 on a faith sign at a time in my life when I couldn't even muster one tiny seed. I can just picture God crossing His ever-patient arms, raising one eyebrow and saying, "OK, Robin, ready or not, here's your sign!"
Looking at my sign, I now realize that faith is one of those God-sized works that only He can do and whatever work He begin He WILL complete! I am humbled by the fact that He is forever faithful even when I am not and I delight in what I consider proof of God's loving pursuit of me! God wants me to have faith! I know this to be a fact, because at a time in my life when I stubbornly refused to have anything to do with faith, He under the guise of good decorating mounted it on my wall!
It strikes me as funny that just last week my reading chair was on the other side of the room and my sign would have been over my head and out of my sight today had I not given in to the temptation of boredom. Hey! Don't judge! There are many worse temptations to give into....
Stubbed toes and shouts of pain are consequences that I, for one, can live with...I just hope my husband remembers what God says about loving at all times.
Robin Montgomery Williams
October 2007
(Copyright 2007 by Robin Montgomery Williams. All rights reserved. Permission is granted for reprint in your church's newsletter provided it is mailed free to your membership.)
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