I decided yesterday that the crunch of time has hit and the list of things I wanted to do in my putter list for Dana's house need to take a higher priority. Golf in the morning is a real treat, but in these foothills I am weary when I finish walking eighteen holes. I want to save some energy for the list I'm trying to complete before I leave so golf will have to wait. When I play golf so early in the morning that I am alone on the course as far as human company is concerned, I find it a time to commune with God. It is an ever present sense of God surrounding me and lifting my spirit as we walk together. It is prayerful but not in the usual way. It builds my assurance that the world is in God's hands and I am in God's hands and all is well. It promotes a deep peace but lacks some of the conversational aspects of other morning time prayer. When I play golf that early, my conversational prayer time is shortened in order to leave the house and get to my relational prayer time as I play golf. I realized this morning that I have been missing some of that conversational time with God. It produces a different kind of assurance and peace. That prayer time at its best is directional and filled with guidance. Areas of life that are surrounded by fog become clear, at least in the sense that enough is revealed that I know God sees what I see and has a plan for me. For me that's enough. I have found that I can trust God with my future ad therefor I can be content to see his plan for me today and live in that moment. Today I have been looking at going back to Myrtle Beach during this time of conversation. My parish is facing some difficult circumstances and I know God placed me there for a reason so I was speaking to him about that. Yesterday was also an important meeting with for the clergy and bishop of South Carolina and I can see very important times ahead in our relationship within the diocese and our ongoing relationships with the wider church. I know those are situations beyond my control and situations beyond today, but the time with God this morning was filled with blessing as I looked for God's use of my life in this time. I don't walk away from this time of prayer with specific answers but with assurance that I am on the journey where he would place me. Some say, wouldn't it be nice to have specific answers to what lies ahead, and at times I've had that happen, but I know most of life is trusting God as he works out the path as best he can given the free will we possess as human beings. The final answers to groups issues cannot be found until people choose what they will do with their free will. Then God can take what he has as a reality and plan the next move. I want to be with him when he moves. That's enough for me to know today.
Friday, August 14, 2009
No Golf
I decided yesterday that the crunch of time has hit and the list of things I wanted to do in my putter list for Dana's house need to take a higher priority. Golf in the morning is a real treat, but in these foothills I am weary when I finish walking eighteen holes. I want to save some energy for the list I'm trying to complete before I leave so golf will have to wait. When I play golf so early in the morning that I am alone on the course as far as human company is concerned, I find it a time to commune with God. It is an ever present sense of God surrounding me and lifting my spirit as we walk together. It is prayerful but not in the usual way. It builds my assurance that the world is in God's hands and I am in God's hands and all is well. It promotes a deep peace but lacks some of the conversational aspects of other morning time prayer. When I play golf that early, my conversational prayer time is shortened in order to leave the house and get to my relational prayer time as I play golf. I realized this morning that I have been missing some of that conversational time with God. It produces a different kind of assurance and peace. That prayer time at its best is directional and filled with guidance. Areas of life that are surrounded by fog become clear, at least in the sense that enough is revealed that I know God sees what I see and has a plan for me. For me that's enough. I have found that I can trust God with my future ad therefor I can be content to see his plan for me today and live in that moment. Today I have been looking at going back to Myrtle Beach during this time of conversation. My parish is facing some difficult circumstances and I know God placed me there for a reason so I was speaking to him about that. Yesterday was also an important meeting with for the clergy and bishop of South Carolina and I can see very important times ahead in our relationship within the diocese and our ongoing relationships with the wider church. I know those are situations beyond my control and situations beyond today, but the time with God this morning was filled with blessing as I looked for God's use of my life in this time. I don't walk away from this time of prayer with specific answers but with assurance that I am on the journey where he would place me. Some say, wouldn't it be nice to have specific answers to what lies ahead, and at times I've had that happen, but I know most of life is trusting God as he works out the path as best he can given the free will we possess as human beings. The final answers to groups issues cannot be found until people choose what they will do with their free will. Then God can take what he has as a reality and plan the next move. I want to be with him when he moves. That's enough for me to know today.
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