Recently on a Missions trip to Peru, I begin to re access my use of time in relation to my normal consumption of news , talk radio, online and television. Now over three months later I have come to the point of filtering priority news events from news in process or just opinion of news in process. I have felt from the beginning of this journey that God was allowing me to stay informed( although for the first 30 days back from Peru I had a total break from any news cast). I learned for the next month to access mostly headlines around the world (from BBC a majority of the time ) in about 10 to 12 minutes at the end of the day. The end of the day was important since it would keep me from temptation to look throughout the day.
Now I seem to not care about news like I used to but am allowing around 30 minutes od news time throughout the day in any form.
This has led me to re access other areas of my life and it it great to have God at work.
It is like fasting since I have replaced news time with more reading.
Part of my reading is in Oswald Chambers book entitled , Spiritual Leadership. Leadership is determined in how a man uses his/her time. "The character and career of a young person are determined largely by how and with whom he spends his spare time". (p85)
It is great to know God continues to define and redefine our lives at every stage.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Good Friday is always a time of intense feeling. This morning our church walked a Cross in Chandler during the time people were going to work. Tonight we had about 60 people from different community churches at our church. I got in on half of it and it too was filled with deep emotion.
The reason I missed the 1st half was due to being examined to see if my nose was broken. I took a fall on the Church parking lot early today, just before we were to walk the cross. I experienced blood and pain --- two parts of what Jesus experienced that day --only my blood and pain was so minor in relation to HIS journey. It is an important day but we are glad it ended with the resurrection on Sunday morning!
Remember - Suffering > Salvation>Resurrection
The reason I missed the 1st half was due to being examined to see if my nose was broken. I took a fall on the Church parking lot early today, just before we were to walk the cross. I experienced blood and pain --- two parts of what Jesus experienced that day --only my blood and pain was so minor in relation to HIS journey. It is an important day but we are glad it ended with the resurrection on Sunday morning!
Remember - Suffering > Salvation>Resurrection
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