Holy Spirit

How To Be Amazing (Because The One Giving The Best Advice Is Amazing!)

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Got time to hang out with God (Oh! And me, too!)?

a monkey with its mouth open

“Yeah, I don’t even know how I found her,” I mentioned to my husband offhandedly, as I distractedly finished my lunch. I had forgotten.

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We were talking about my chiropractor, who was like a gift from God, healing my back with her expertise.

The next morning, my prayer group reminded me how I had found her. Years earlier, a friend had some trouble with her foot. She mentioned the name of the person who is now my chiropractor.

Her, Holy Spirit seemed to nudge my heart.

My friend was reluctant to share her contact information with me. “I have no idea if she even adjusts backs,” she cautioned.

Her, Holy Spirit seemed to repeat.

I was in a phase of rejecting all therapy at that time.

Everything I tried, every physiotherapist, chiropractor, masseuse, and others had made me worse. Much worse. I was afraid to try anyone else.

“I’ll just have to solve this on my own,” I had thought.

But with a nudge from God, I made the call. I was tense and nervous in her office that first day. But she became the gift God gave to me.

And I was thankful for her.

Until I forgot about her (Hey! It happens!)

Months later, I hobbled around, one hand on my back, bent over and twisted.

Even though it had NOTHING to do with my ego, an inadequate assessment of my own strength, or trying to impress others, I did (a teensy bit!) too much in my new CrossFit class that week.

Aside: This is a picture of me at the gym so you can be suitably impressed with how strong I am!

a woman lifting a barbell in a gym

Wait – I meant to put in this picture1, below – Whatever!

But on that (annoying) day, after my too-intense workout, I could feel my lower back muscles clench, pushing me into a C-shape. “This strain will probably get better on its own,” I thought. I was in denial, again, but my body kept slowly bending me over.

The name of my chiropractor popped into my head.

Oh right! But we were leaving on holiday.

I didn’t think I had the time to see her, and she is normally booked weeks in advance, anyway.

I continued to pack, holding my aching back. But again, and again, the chiropractor’s name went through my head that morning, as I was thinking of other things. This is one of the ways God speaks to us.

He reminds us, again and again.

We don’t always pay attention to the first few2 times.

I finally called the chiropractor, the one I hadn’t seen in five months, the one I had somehow forgotten about after a season of happy back. She surprisingly had one cancellation that morning, which worked perfectly before we left on holiday. Her touch was like the hand of God.

I don’t mean to be overly dramatic, but that is how it felt to me.

My body obeyed the chiropractor’s touch and re-aligned. My posture was upright. I (carefully) went about my day, and in only several days, instead of several months, I was running again.

I could run faster, complete the triathlon, and horse around with the kids again sooner, much sooner.

(There is another and another who helped my back a ton as well, but those are different stories.)

God walked with me in my pain, and His Spirit guided me to a person who used her skills to allow God’s healing through my body.

And I have remembered, now, to be thankful to God for her, too.

If I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me.

Ancient Text

Need some advice?

Ask!

God, you long to give out treasures, but we so infrequently come to You to receive. Help us, Jesus, to run to You as a small child in distress runs to their parent, longing for an embrace. May we trust You more deeply with our headaches, heartaches, body aches, and spiritual aches.

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Photo Credit – Yeah! I Feel Like That, Too! by Thomas Oxford on Unsplash, Me! by Random Person Standing Nearby, and Wow! She’s STRONG! by Marvin Cors on Unsplash (No Wait – Reverse The Order Of Those Last Two Photos – Whatever!)

1 What? WHO said that’s a “Training Bar” and “Training Weights”! You can’t prove it from that photo! (To my editor: Can they?)

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Hack: Online Connection Actually Begins Tonight (Why Not Soar Together?)

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Got time to learn to fly, friend?

This photo is me on the day I won FIRST PRIZE at the craft fair for the sunflower shirt I sewed! (See Footnote 11 for why I subtly placed that fact here). Oh! And I HAPPEN to be wearing that EXACT shirt today!

That is VERY auspicious for our online times together.

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I talked about it BEFORE. It’s finally happening, starting TONIGHT: online connection, finding our ears to learn to hear the nudges of God together, and tea.2

Note that no one needs to speak during the prayer (unless you want to). Oh! And stay afterwards for a connection time, to get to know each other, if you have a few minutes.

Why not?

Let’s learn to soar together, friend, as we practice connection with God.

Let’s journey together!

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Fix Your Broken Shopping Cart (And Life)! 3 Helpful Reasons Why

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How much do you also simply tolerate, friend?

a black and white photo of a shopping cart

I was pushing my shopping cart in the grocery store. I was in a hurry (Of course!) and pushing more on one side because the thing kept veering off to one side as I walked, trying to smash into every aisle. “I. Only. Have. To. Get. A. Few. More. Items,” I grunted begrudgingly, pushing hard with both hands on one side of the cart.

I don’t want you to go through life like this. I thought I sensed God whispering in my heart.

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Spiritually Asleep As You Live Your Life? How To Awaken

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And while we’re chatting, do you want another cookie and to join me in playing a game on my iPad, friend?

Man yawning widely with hands behind his head.

The sun peeked through the darkness.

city skyline under gray cloudy sky during daytime

The storm was lifting. Hope filled the air along with the fresh scent of life, stirring, awakening with the rain. It was a new season.

Today.

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I stretched, removed the covers from my bed and sat up, looking around me blankly. What would this new day, this new season bring, now that this storm was lifting, I wondered? I poured my coffee and asked these questions of God, and his whisperings startled me.

person holding white ceramic cup with hot coffee

There is so much in my life that He is longing to awaken. How about in yours?

Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it?

The Message

And how do we awaken, if we, like Sleeping Beauty, have been spiritually resting for a few years?

Try this: As the song below plays1 and as you sit with your morning coffee, pondering this new day or this new season, what stirrings in the dry soil of your heart, of seeds coming to life, do you sense?

Oh! And she sings of repentance in this song, but I wouldn’t recommend THAT or anything! In my humble opinion, there doesn’t seem to generally be any need to travel down any spiritual path as far as repentance would take us.

Please!

I definitely recommend turning back and hanging out with the rest of us who don’t want to walk THAT far! And anyway, the part of the song about repentance doesn’t apply to me, thankfully! (It may, however, apply to you, of course.)

True repentance [is] not merely . . . sorrow over sin, but . . . a “sweet sorrow” arising from a new, awakened delight in the beauty of God.2

John Piper – Desiring God

PS – I’m not sure exactly what John is talking about here, but it sounds deep, and it seems to fit, so I thought I would include it!

You’re welcome!

Good luck!

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Photo Credits Me! (Except I Look Different) by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash, Is That Hope? by Etienne Boulanger on Unsplash, No! That’s NOT God Speaking! That’s Steam! by Clay Banks on Unsplash

1 She’s a little serious in this song. You’ll want to offer her a cookie and tell her, “Hey, Lady! Relax a bit!” (At least I do.) The point is that it’s good to wake up spiritually. She gets that part, so we can at least learn that bit from her!

2 And may you awake a little more with each poke repentance gives our sleeping form, friend.

Do You Hear The Birds? (Hack: How To Be Awakened Spiritually By Their Song)

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Got time to watch the movie going on right next to you, friend?

A bird is perched on a thin branch.

The bird flitters from branch to branch.

It’s a yellowish green. It has yellowish-green feathers and a little white circle around its eye – a flycatcher. This family of birds has built its nest here for at least a dozen of its little bird generations, for as long as we have visited this summer cabin.

We didn’t notice them for the first few years.

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We only heard them, the little “Whew-it!” sound, rising at the end, every two minutes or so. “Just another bird sound,” we thought, eating our food at the outside table and distracted by the food and by each other. But that sound sure was insistent.

Could there be more to this incessant sound than just another bird flitting around nearby somewhere?

“Can you pass the peanut butter?”

And we forgot about them again.

Until the baby bird fell out of the nest that summer and flapped pathetically on the floor right beside our table outside.

“Whew-it! Whew-it!” We heard that same sound now, but more intensely, more insistently, louder.

It was the Father bird calling, imploring the little bird to stretch its wings, give flying a go, insistent now.

Our eyes had finally awakened to EXACTLY WHICH bird made that insistent sound, and was the nest far away? Directly above where the little bird was flapping, we finally noticed the obvious – a nest in the rafters just above us. The birds flitting above us as we ate our meals several times per day were the parents. They were doing their little bird jobs, telling the babies to wait a bit – they would bring more food once the scary demon humans had eaten their meals and finally cleared out. The birds were flitting and making noise above us as we were eating our meals.

A lot was going on that we didn’t have eyes to see until the unusual happened.

A baby bird flapped, and its Father called next to our feet as we ate our lunch that day.

And when we got up from the distractions of more food and of each other, and took a closer inspection at this bird, and then followed the clues to notice the bird’s nest above our heads, finally, we were awakened to a whole other world that had been going on right next to us for years.

And in precisely the same way, God wants us to open our eyes to see the realities of the spiritual dimension, happening right next to us every minute of our lives.

Sometimes we see something remarkable, something that makes us rub our eyes and say, “What now?” kind of like a baby bird flapping at our feet during breakfast.

Sometimes we hear a sound, repetitive and gentle, kind of like the “Whew-it!” sound of a flycatcher repeatedly calling to its young while we distractedly eat breakfast.

“What was that?” we wonder, but then all is quiet again, and maybe it’s just another bird in the trees doing who-knows-what, we think, returning to our breakfast cereal.

And so, how do we awaken to the physical and the spiritual unusual? We linger, we listen, we allow the questions of our soul to surface, and we watch a bit longer. We attach our ears, and we take off our blindfolds.

Then it’s a little easier for God to surprise us with the unusual.

The land you have given me is a pleasant land. What a wonderful inheritance!

Ancient Text

Got time to open the door, friend, have a cup of tea with Holy Spirit, and start an adventure?

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Photo Credit – There’s A Whole Other World Out There by Vijayalakshmi Nidugondi on Unsplash

Suddenly, An Unremarkable Event Instructs Us In Hope (Need Some?)

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Sit by me, friend! I found some hope to share today!

purple and white flower in close up photography

I was startled when I saw it.

It was a mundane circumstance for those without eyes to appreciate it.

But my heart quickened many beats. God seemed to be whispering in the ordinary, calling me to see something more profound than this mundane object. Would I have ears to hear? Did I have time to listen? Was I too busy to notice?

Here’s what happened.

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How To Find Heart Healing (Say What Can’t Be Said)

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Shhh. . . Can you hear your heart speak what can’t be said, friend?

floating woman on body of water

I have some permanent lines on my face as I’ve gotten (a bit!) older. I like the horizontal “smile lines” on the edges of my face. I also have vertical lines between my eyebrows.

I got those because I have been confused most of my life.

It’s NOT that I ever get angry! I’m mad that you think that! Anyway, the article below shows one of the ways I felt (a bit!) confused at times.

And oh!

This article is one of the crowd favorites, so I’m sure there MUST BE some wisdom in the confusion! May you gain more insight as you read, even if you feel a bit more confused at first, too! I hope this helps you!

You’re welcome!

Good luck!

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Jesus Is EVEN BETTER Than Tony Robbins At Achieving Thrilling Results Like Transforming Your Life!

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Come here and sit by ME to get your life transformed, friend!

man in black jacket holding brown box

Tony Robbins1 is larger than life, both in terms of stature (6’7” – 1.98 m) and influence.

I have considered myself larger than life as well. For example, that time when I gained some weight! So, I point out, however humbly, that there are some slight similarities in the impact of my life, Tony Robbins’ life, and God!

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The context of today’s article is that I was part of the energetic, jumping crowd that listened to some of Tony Robbins’ free Time-To-Rise teaching series on YouTube this week.

When Tony Robbins’ talk began this week, I thought he said there were two billion people at his online meeting. At that level, he would be helping almost as many people as Jesus in that moment! However, I got order of magnitude confused, and it was ONLY two million people that he was helping!

It’s easy to mix up how many zeros there are after a number when we consider how many people we have helped!

As for me, I don’t have quite as many zeros after my two people that I have helped,2 but, as Tony Robbins helpfully points out, it’s not the order of magnitude that matters so much as how much value you provide!

Tony Robbins set himself the goal of helping feed one billion people.3

Jesus feeds every person on the planet every moment, if our eyes are open enough to see. For example, check out this YouTube channel. He is helping lots of people!

I am not up there on that website of people Jesus helped because I don’t have a neck tattoo, and I didn’t spend time in jail (which is basically the same thing) before I decided to follow Jesus, so my story is less interesting, but He still helps me!

And there are tons of other people with boring4 lives like mine that Jesus also helped!

For now, we have firmly established that Tony Robbins and Jesus5 help people! A future article will compare the details of how Tony Robbins helps people (He helps a lot of people!) and how God helps people (God also helps a lot of people!). We hope that, after delving into this theme in more detail, you, too, can find someone (awesome) to help you transform your life!

You’re welcome!

Good luck!

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Photo Credit – Which Way Will You Go, Friend? by Majestic Lukas on Unsplash

1 A guy who helps people. Learn more below.

2 For example, I helped two people in my church a few years ago! Once, I helped a child in our church find her toy after I gave her toy to my daughter because I liked my daughter more! I also helped one other person way before that, but I can’t remember the details now.

3 It should be noted, just as an aside, that I feed my family almost every night, which is also impressive because I’ve cooked even when I didn’t want to!

4 And by boring, I mean exciting because I write online, so of course I have a fascinating life under the boring bits!

5 (And me!)

The Kind Of Powerful Experience of God’s Love That Makes International News Is Available Anywhere

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Got time for God, friend?

person holding Holy Bible

In the last article, we discussed the hints of a spiritual revival breaking out, especially among youth. Here’s another example of a quiet revival that occurred among some youth several years ago. And when I say ‘quiet revival,’ it wasn’t so quiet.

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A few Christian youths who lingered after church to pray made international news headlines.

The Washington Post: Why students at Asbury University are praying and singing round the clock

The Washington Post: Asbury University revival set to end after attracting thousands

A reminder that the Washington Post isn’t sympathetic to the majority of a Christian worldview on social issues. The newsworthy facts remained that over 60,000-70,000 people from 200 academic institutions and multiple countries came to a sleepy 6,000-person town over two weeks to experience the felt sense of God’s love more deeply. This event, however startling, was not entirely dissimilar from what has happened in previous generations and places when multitudes gave their lives to Jesus.

Many of us have experienced something similar to what happened at these events.

For example, several years ago, I was sitting beside a lake one morning, minding my own business, when God’s spirit ushered into my life and gently woke me.

Not from my sleep but from my life.

Wake up! Holy Spirit seemed to be nudging me.

What happened at Asbury reminded me of this experience. A bunch of regular kids attended a church service. It was an uneventful day.

But God‘s spirit rushed in and grabbed them, gently shaking them with a deeper awareness of His love.

The kids stayed and worshiped.

We know someone who attended that event. This person said that the sense of God‘s love was palpable as soon as you entered the building. Many others felt it too. In the sermon that Zach Meerkreebs preached just before this outbreak, he said, “Make sure you experience God‘s love. Don’t graduate until you have experienced God‘s love. Don’t leave this building until you have experienced God’s love.”

How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding – this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!

Ancient Text

And, coincidentally perhaps, I was asked this question this morning: How would this (day, month, or) year look different if you really understood that you are deeply loved? A good question. (Who wouldn’t fly around the world to experience a bit more of the felt presence of God’s love?)

But we can also experience this type of powerful felt presence of God’s love in our own homes.

The time when God touched me, powerfully, precisely as happened in Asbury, I also experienced a deeper understanding of God’s love just before it. I had listened to a sermon by Rolland Baker. He said that many of us are seeking outpouring, seeking even what happened in places like Asbury, but what we need to seek is simply God.

And so this touch of God at Asbury that shook the world, that is waking us up to say, there is more, is possible within each of our hearts and in our homes and in our churches in every moment.

Got time for God?

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Photo Credit – Where is Love Found? by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash