While my daughter (Sienna) stared up at me the other day from her swinging chair i had a thought: how do i connect her relational-life with God to mine? It didn't take long for me to answer the question: we both need a devotional life. We both must learn to relate to the Lord intimately and authentically through reflection/ meditation on Scripture. Our needs are the same: connect with God in spirit and truth. There is no more important way to do that than through ones relationship with God through prayer and meditation on Scripture. Iin Gary Chapmans book The Five Love Languages he says that there are five basic ways human beings experience/ receive love: acts of service, physical touch, gifts, quality time, and words of encouragement. I have been asking myself of late: what is God's love language? Without a doubt that language is quality time. And of course of all the languages of love we have to offer God, or anyone else for that matter, the most important is quality time: time is hard enough, quality time is even harder. But it is necessary. It is out of this difficult challenge that this blog grows.
So, i invite you to get a cup of coffee, or tea or whatever and join Sienna and I each day (or every other day) as we read Scripture/pray and reflect together. I will post the Scripture we read and then some thoughts on the text (sometimes brief and spiritual, other times more focused on connnecting the text to the larger Biblical narrative/ worldview) and invite you to offer your thoughts in response. This has the amazing potential to change our lives...becuae it offers us accountability and focus as we try to navigate through this often times intimidating thing called Scripture.
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It's good to hear your on this journey with Sienna - how little we know about the Spiritual life and capacity of babies (let alone ourselves) - God works in mysterious ways.
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