DIGGING DEEPER DEVOTIONAL JUNE 7, 2024
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Digging Deeper June 6, 2024
DIGGING DEEPER DEVOTIONAL JUNE 5, 2024
SHARE MY WORLD 6-3-2024
THIS POST IS WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO PENSITIVITY’S SHARE MY WORLD CHALLENGE.
1. Have you ever wanted to be famous?
I suppose everyone has had their moment of seeking fame and glory. When I was young and immature I think I wanted fame out of a lack of my own self worth. As I have grown more comfortable in my own skin, I have realized I don’t need the recognition of other men to validate who I am. At least most times that is true.
2. Have you met any celebrities?
Hmmm. I suppose if you count….No. No I haven’t.
3. Has anyone ever asked you for your autograph?
Only in a year book or in a high school play bill.
4. Is there a celebrity you wish to have met/meet?
Not really. I enjoy meeting people as people not as their mythology. If I were to meet someone famous I would hope I would be more concerned about their personhood than I would be about any notoriety I might gain from being in their presence.
MY WEEKLY GRATITUDE… Is that I got to go dinner with my cousins Karen and Mike yesterday.
DIGGING DEEPER DEVOTIONAL JUNE 3, 2024
PREPARE YOUR HOPE PT. 3
This year our church has been given a congregational sentence that comes through the many prophetic words which have been spoken to us over the last year or so. That sentence says: “Prepare! Prepare! Prepare! Prepare you Spirit (come out of the decay of your strongholds). Prepare your Souls(Prepare to practice and feel compassion). Prepare your facility (your structures, infrastructures and plans). Prepare for the storm (Pray for action plan, Pray for a spirit of perseverance). Prepare your witness (know your gifts, earn the right to speak, build your relationships with those outside the church, build your example). Prepare your hope and faith (think hope, speak hope, act in hope). Prepare your love (love each other, love the people in your towns, love those who disagree with you, love through the doors that open).“
I am breaking these seven prepare statements into 21 daily devotional thoughts which I am sharing once a week. We are currently on…
WEEK 18- Prepare your hope and faith( think hope, speak hope, act in hope).
We have established that thinking in hope and speaking hope in the days ahead is going to be absolutely necessary. But there is something more… James writes, “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
If we want to change ourself we must change how we view ourselves, how we think about ourselves. But if we want to change the world (which is part of our mission statement by the way) then we have to change the way we speak and change the way we behave.
WHAT ARE SOME ACTS OF HOPE YOU ARE BEING LED TO DO?
Digging Deeper Devotional June 1, 2024
Paintbrush
I love the Indian Paintbrush that comes at the end of Spring. We have a little at The Vicarage, but my neighbor has it in everywhere!
Spring Festival 2024: Finale: Ready For Summer
We may have another month until summer officially begins. The rains may have returned the temperatures here back to the 50’s, but the gardens know the Spring is almost past and the summer is upon us.
The lupine is fully in bloom.
The Korean lilac has fully blossomed.
The tomatoes and the summer squash are in. The garden beds are ready to begin producing.
The daisies are about to open.
Even the hostas are giving attention to the coming of the warmth. Yesterday I caught the fragrance of the black locust trees mixed in with the scent of basil and mint. That is a sure sign of the passing of Spring into summer.
I found two large patches of wild oregano growing where I was weed whacking another sign of what is to come. As we close out this FESTIVAL OF SPRING CHALLENGE HOSTED BY DAWN, what does it look like in your part of the world when Spring passes into summer? SHARE A PICTURE!
Notes From the Vicarage 