What age are you today?

I read this great article by Anne LaMott (who spells her name correctly) in 'O' magazine about age. She said that she's all the ages she's ever been at the same time. That just makes so much sense. When I move after sitting for a while, I feel my age (49), but when I play with my canine nephew I feel about 8 years old. And when I'm with the College Age Community Group (CACG) from church, which I'm nominally in charge of, I feel like I'm in college again and like I'm a fairly mature middle aged adult all at the same time. So this gives rise to my human behavior theory. You know how some adults will act like they're in junior high, or act like they're toddlers? What is you interact with them on the level they're acting? For toddler stage, maybe give them the adult equivalent of a time out? Or for the junior high stage, give them some homework? I don't know if it's true, but I'll be trying it out.

WWJIMD

I've been meditating on Galatians 2:20--I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me & gave Himself for me. (NASB--from memory...all mistakes are mine) I'm trying to wrap my mind around the idea of Christ living in me. So as I go through the day, maybe the question isn't, "What would Jesus do?" maybe the quesion is, "What would Jesus in me do?" Each of us has different life experiences, we interact with different people, we have unique personalities, and so maybe Jesus can do different things in and through different people. Think about it......

A Still Small Voice

Sometime I feel like I'm the still small voice, whispering into the great void of the universe. But the still small voice I long for is God's voice. I try to find the quiet to hear His voice, but the frenetic pace of my life and the noise that surrounds me keep me from the quiet. Not to mention the noise in my head which drowns out God's voice: my to do list, my daydreams, my inner diaglog. The Nooma video, 'Noise,' really zeroed in on the lack of silence and stillness in my life. I pray that I can find that oasis of quiet to hear God, who with all His might and power, speaks to us in a still small voice.