Spirit

Reading Eugene Peterson's "Traveling Light." He says on p.87, "Spirit is the scriptural word for God sharing his life in our lives. It means that God is not an anonymous somebody 'out there' or an idea explained in a book, but a living presence whom I experience in the life I live day by day. God gives himself to me. I receive God into myself. Spirit is God's gift of himself in my experience."

That's pretty cool. I like Eugene. And, thanks God, for your gift to me. I feel much better today than the past... um, many day. I was thinking about my posts, and they all seem to be me griping and complaining (except the optimist one). Seems kind of odd that - on the cggc blog I posted about optimism, and it seems to have shut the site down. I'm just asking myself really... why? I dunno.

At any rate, today seems a good day. It's really cold, but it's pretty, and my chest doesn't hurt, and I think we're going to buy a new computer for home, and it's interesting that the church gave us a Christmas gift last Sunday that will help with that in a huge way; plus I took some of the memory out of my home computer and put it in my work one and that helped.

Now if I could just get motivated to do some work. That's the bad thing about not having to prepare a sermon - I have time to do all the other things I need to catch up on, but I don't feel like it, or I can't decide what to do, or something. And I actually don't have to prepare a sermon for TWO WEEKS IN A ROW! Cool. I am looking forward to seeing how people react to the "Luggage" nooma video on New Year's Day.

Well, it's been real. Thanks for sharing your life with me, God. Thanks for letting me tag along. Spirit is as Spirit does. (and what was that abotu chocolates?)