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Notes from a messy desk....

May 2012

Change

May is a transition month.  We are preparing to move from the school year to Summer.  We are preparing to move from chill to warmth.  We are preparing to move from bare ground and bare trees to GREEN.  Gardens are being cultivated.  Vacations are being planned.  Whatever we can fit in the twelve weeks of Summer finds itself being discussed in May.  We are preparing for a change.

What happens if we add another dimension to our Summer planning?  Somewhere in between the garden plotting and deck staining, what if we add a portion of scripture?  No, not a poster or a sign with scripture on it but a determination.  A determination to make scripture more personal, more a part of us.  A thoroughly planned ingestion of scripture.   Let me share my personal challenge with you:  One verse per week.  Select twelve verses of scripture.  They can be consecutive or varied or a mixture of both.  Each week for the twelve weeks of Summer post a verse.  Post it on your bathroom mirror, computer screen, visor in your car…anywhere and everywhere you glance so you can “eat” that scripture all day long.  Begin the first week of June with verse number one.  Eat that verse for a week.  Second week, add your second verse.  Now you have two verses to ingest every day.  Continue to add a verse per week throughout Summer and see what grows in your spiritual garden. 

 

“ ¹⁵ For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all  the saints, ¹⁶do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.”

Ephesians 1:15-17

 

 

Pastor Orleen Haseltine

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