I have been suffering from a bit of a writers block, or should I say that I really just haven't had, or taken the time to write in a blog in quite some time, and I am excited to break the ice here on our new website.
So much has happened over the winter, or our version of it, and due to the warm weather, I have been spending much of my free time out in the area behind our home that was once covered in vines, that I cleared last winter, the real one, for a prayer garden.
In preparation for the summer season that is quickly approaching, and the arrival of our brothers and sisters from Youth With A Mission (YWAM), I have been getting the prayer garden cleared of winter debris such as pine needles, cones, and the like, as well as getting the soil ready for planting, and I have noticed that I feel so close to God when I am on my knees in the dirt.
I don't find that particularly surprising, especially considering the fact that I am made from dirt, and to dirt I will one day return, but as we have been studying through a series by Francis Chan at our small group Gathering on Friday nights for the past couple of months called BASIC, I have noticed that I have become more sensitive to the presence and leading of the Holy Spirit, and He seems to like our little garden, because He regularly meets with me there.
I am reminded of the old song 'In the Garden' which is why I have titled this post as I have. It goes something like this...
I COME TO THE GARDEN ALONE, WHILE THE DEW IS STILL ON THE ROSES
AND THE VOICE I HEAR FALLING ON MY EAR
THE SON OF GOD DISCLOSES
AND HE WALKS WITH ME, AND HE TALKS WITH ME
AND HE TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN
AND THE JOY WE SHARE AS I TARRY THERE
NONE OTHER HAS EVER KNOWN
Mind you that is only the first verse and the chorus, but I think you may get the idea. I head out to the garden alone, but He always meets me there, and it the most amazing feeling that I have ever known, and one that I look forward to each day, or at least as often as I can.
With our Gathering study of BASIC behind us, we are now moving on to an intense, eight week discussion and journey that focuses on the Holy Spirit, and how we have forgotten Him as the One promised by Jesus to be 'better' than His own presence with us. It is also by Francis Chan, and is based on his book, 'Forgotten God-Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit'.
I look forward to what God has in store for me, as well as the group, and I have plans to create a category here in our blog for my musings on this particular study, and I am sure that this will be the beginning of something beautifully new that God wants to do in my heart, and I anticipate nothing less than awesomeness from an awesome God.
So much has happened over the winter, or our version of it, and due to the warm weather, I have been spending much of my free time out in the area behind our home that was once covered in vines, that I cleared last winter, the real one, for a prayer garden.
In preparation for the summer season that is quickly approaching, and the arrival of our brothers and sisters from Youth With A Mission (YWAM), I have been getting the prayer garden cleared of winter debris such as pine needles, cones, and the like, as well as getting the soil ready for planting, and I have noticed that I feel so close to God when I am on my knees in the dirt.
I don't find that particularly surprising, especially considering the fact that I am made from dirt, and to dirt I will one day return, but as we have been studying through a series by Francis Chan at our small group Gathering on Friday nights for the past couple of months called BASIC, I have noticed that I have become more sensitive to the presence and leading of the Holy Spirit, and He seems to like our little garden, because He regularly meets with me there.
I am reminded of the old song 'In the Garden' which is why I have titled this post as I have. It goes something like this...
I COME TO THE GARDEN ALONE, WHILE THE DEW IS STILL ON THE ROSES
AND THE VOICE I HEAR FALLING ON MY EAR
THE SON OF GOD DISCLOSES
AND HE WALKS WITH ME, AND HE TALKS WITH ME
AND HE TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN
AND THE JOY WE SHARE AS I TARRY THERE
NONE OTHER HAS EVER KNOWN
Mind you that is only the first verse and the chorus, but I think you may get the idea. I head out to the garden alone, but He always meets me there, and it the most amazing feeling that I have ever known, and one that I look forward to each day, or at least as often as I can.
With our Gathering study of BASIC behind us, we are now moving on to an intense, eight week discussion and journey that focuses on the Holy Spirit, and how we have forgotten Him as the One promised by Jesus to be 'better' than His own presence with us. It is also by Francis Chan, and is based on his book, 'Forgotten God-Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit'.
I look forward to what God has in store for me, as well as the group, and I have plans to create a category here in our blog for my musings on this particular study, and I am sure that this will be the beginning of something beautifully new that God wants to do in my heart, and I anticipate nothing less than awesomeness from an awesome God.
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