This may not be politically correct, but we are having Indian Summer and experiencing a warm rain tonight. It snowed a few weeks ago and melted

Archie, one day we will meet. As far as the other things you are involved in, I wish you the best of luck and satisfaction, however, I do think you strayed a little from your initial concept, God Spots.

Those events that effect people and their lives which they believe were influenced by God.

When organization or anything resembling bureaucracy enters into the picture, it takes away from your premise.

For example, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost post where you speculated which may be the most powerful. That is something I would write, not you.

To me, that is the physics/science mind trying to come to terms with the spiritual side of life.

As an observation of life, I feel it is simpler for logic and faith to coexist when the faith part makes sense to the logic part. Faith can be realized, God can exist and the Soul be at peace with the reality of what we know life is.

Thank you for the transparency in your life and the encouragement.

There is change in the wind of the traditional church. It looks like I will be a part of it. Maybe you will be too…
archie

You know how I think, so I will give you some advice, as it seems you are seeking direction.

The thought came to you, you spent some time and effort into it, so continue.

If you have one person, aside from yourself being a part of this, that is success. If you have two, that is plentiful.

One by one.

If you have faith in what you believe, and I believe you do, don’t let a few knocks get you down.

For six months I walked around with this thought running through my mind. Until one day during chapel the Chaplain unintentenally looked right at me and read the passage he was going to be preaching on

Psalm 51:16-18 (New International Version)

16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

18 In your good pleasure make Zion prosper;
build up the walls of Jerusalem.

Relief flooded over me and I thought if this is all God is asking I can readily give it. This was one of the beginning markers of the new fire God has placed inside of me. Since then there are days when brokeness comes and it has been so hard to allow God to reveal the condition of my heart. But afterwards, the reward of freedom is worth the price.

God has shown me just how beautiful brokeness is to Him just in the last few days. My oldest son who is now 12 came to me the other night with tears in his eyes. Just know, that he is a very big boy and tends to not show emotion too often. He asked if he could talk to me, and then grabbed me in an embrace and just sobbed on my shoulder for a good 5 mnutes before he told me what was going on. I prayed during this time that God would prepare my heart and fill me with grace and love for whatever he was about to tell me.

He just looked at me and said,”Mom, I’m so selfish, I’m so spoiled and I take advantage of everything God has given me.” I then asked him what he meant. He said,”Mom, Macailyn (who is my 6 year old daughter with down syndrome) has so many obstacles in her life. She struggles to learn and to have friends and everything. I don’t have any of those struggles. But I always complain and I’m never satisfied.”

My heart melted. I knew this was a work of the Holy Spirit breaking him of selfishness and growing the gift of mercy that God has given him. I just looked at him and loved him so much and my heart was swelling with joy. I will never forget that moment with my son. One the proudest moments in my life. To see your son come to you in brokeness and realize that heart of stone is turning to a heart of flesh.

Love ya. Have fun at church!
Rich Glenn

So mechanically, everyday and all during the day, I watched to see where God would do something. At night I would lay down and think through the day, did I see God? In the morning, I would wake up wondering where I would see God first.

Overtime, God engineered circumstance such that the God Spots became more frequent and my faith continued to increase. Now I am surprised if I don’t see God do something.

I just got off Facebook Chat with a guy I have never met. He said hello. We chatted and come to find out we are both interested in organic churches and both had dad’s who were Baptist pastors. The odds are too great for chance. It was God authenticating His presence and I get to blog about it. I think God just smiled.

If I were you, I’d pray for God Spots and passionately begin watching for God to authenticate His presence. I think God likes to show off. Ha! I hope He has a sense of humor.

I believe to focus on Jesus is to see the world through the eyes of Jesus, to smell the world through the nose of Jesus, to feel the world through the hands of Jesus, to hear the world through the ears of Jesus and to think on the world through the mind of Jesus.

To focus on Jesus means to lose focus on everything else in your environment. The roar of things around you become strangely quiet as your focus shifts to Jesus. The clarity of thought becomes divinely pure as your mind focuses on Jesus. There is an intense awareness of those things that are important to Jesus as you gain focus and the earthly things become insignificant.

As I prayed this evening earnestly desiring to understand what it meant to focus on Jesus. I was reminded of the sick and starving children of Burkina Faso. I saw the children through the eyes of Christ. Focused!

As you focus on Jesus, you become as Jesus in His image. Choose to focus. Live in the image of Christ.

So tied to a business failure of gigantic proportions, I found myself in a very dark place not of my choosing. At times, all I could do was cry out, “Jesus”. Out of the darkness, God began creating a new archie in the image He desires to spend eternity. The process has been both incredibly painful and yet incredibly fulfilling.

Through this 2 year process, I discovered I had become a Jesus freak. It’s from this vantage point that I passionately chase after God Spots.

Hope this helps. As a second thought, I desired a closer relationship with God before the crash and burn, but I did not know the price I would pay to get here. Would I do it again, yes. Would I look forward to the process? NO WAY!

Peace