Most of my adult life I had a pretty consistent daily morning routine of prayer, reading and reflection. Honestly, there were days the reflection and quiet time were very quiet because I was still a bit sleepy. Those morning times did, however, help me order my day and were a consistent effort to seek God’s Will for the day and for my life. There were years my purpose was to read through the entire Bible, years when I read the four Gospels several times, years I focused on the writings of Paul, and years I read and reread Psalms and Proverbs.
In recent years, the gold standard of devotional time has become journaling. Throughout my life, I made several attempts at journaling, but failed!!!! It may have been partly due to the way I prepared messages for Sunday Worship and my limited ability to focus on writing other thoughts during the week.
After I retired in June 2018, I took a break from writing. On the rare occasion I was asked to preach I have usually shared favorite messages prepared and presented over my 40 years in ministry, those that are pretty universal in truth.
On occasion in my quiet times and sometimes in the not so quiet times of my life, thoughts and ideas would run through my mind. After three years of letting those thoughts run wild and disappear, I decided to start to write them down. I did this just for me, just to help me process and ponder my life, life in general, and how my faith in Jesus in Christ as Savior and Lord impacts life!
While I was a pastor I tried to stick to what was universally accepted as Truth. I shared my opinions on certain things and rarely shied away from controversy, but I didn’t try to invite it. I tried to help people navigate the gray areas of life, its ambiguities rather than appeal to extremes. The middle road is not always easy to travel and I tried to discern what I knew to be truth and what just may be my opinion or interpretation.
Now as I journal, I do allow myself to share my opinions, some of my heartfelt and personal observations and interpretations of life and faith according to Gee (yes it is a bit dangerous!)
After writing a few, I decided to post these on my website, just in case they might inspire others. I am not trying to start a conversation, enter into deep conversations or to post a lot of comments to spark conversations. These are just my thoughts!
If they inspire you, if they remind you of conversations we have had, or if they shed any new light on your journey as a follower of Jesus; I would love to hear about it. I am not trying to stir up controversy or start arguments! It’s just my thoughts and me!
We may learn some things about each other along the way!
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Keep in mind I was a Math major, so I do welcome grammar and punctuation suggestions and corrections