{"id":6,"date":"2007-10-23T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/23\/wow-what-a-long-time\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T19:57:00","slug":"wow-what-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/23\/wow-what-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, what a long time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, I guess no one missed me, but then how can you miss what you don’t know about?<\/p>\n

Some days just seem so much better than others. When I think I get how some of this works with God, that is when I start to get in trouble. Over all life is working out really well. Sometimes in my spiritual life, it seems to go slowly. At least more slowly thank I want. I am almost done with a book on growing churches.
“The Purpose Driven Church”. I have learned a lot, and want to use what I have learned ASAP. There I go again, wanting to do things in my time frame, vs God’s.<\/p>\n

Slowly I need to keep reminding myself. We are not all in the same place and sometimes if I rush to move others there, or move myself to where they are, it all back fires.<\/p>\n

God never intended us to be a bunch of Lemmings. All just following along blindly, just “Because”.
If he had, why was there free will? Life is certainly more interesting this way!<\/p>\n

Currently I am in a Diakonia class again. Pastor Ben is teaching the class and I am doing an audit of it again. I spent two years in Diakonia, and I am back again. I learned a lot the first two years, and I have a lot to say, but must keep that down, so the other students get a chance to learn.<\/p>\n

Upcoming after this class is an opportunity to teach a Bible study on the Apostles Creed.
That should be interesting. No time frame, for the end. Hopefully no end, and it just moves on to another topic. I pray that God gives me the knowledge and wisdom to do this. I know I can, however I need to keep in mind that it is not I, but him, who does the work.<\/p>\n

Wow, something great just happened while keeping God in front.
As I wrote this post, I kept having my screen flip away. I use Suse Linux for my system, and I can rotate desktops. Ever since I installed this, it has been a problem when writing. The screen just kept moving on it’s own. Well, we know it does not do that, but it sure darn seems like it. Anyway, I just found the fix. It has been months of problems!! All fixed now!!!<\/p>\n

Well, I am going to try to make this more regular, and I might even tell a couple of people about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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