Greetings from another day at classes…my mind is overflowing and it is getting harder and harder to do my reading in the evenings…however this morning’s class was absolutely amazing and I just can’t believe the experience of God’s presence as we move through different exercises in class to solidify the truths we are learning. Today we met in groups of three and prayed the Pauline prayers over each other…those prayers are so overwhelming in the content to begin with and then to have them prayed over you is nothing short of amazing…it moved me to tears to think that we can be so audacious as to pray these prayers and knowing that God the Father hears them and desires to answer and give us all these things in our lives…all we need to do is get out of the way…easier said than done. Again as I reflect on what was said today I wonder how it can be made practical in my life and then in the lives of those around me. There is so much in this book called “The Bible” that is so relevant and life changing to our lives today, so how do we make it part of our everyday life? Good question!
I also went to a lunch presentation by Darrell on Spiritual Formation…it was mostly dialogue and it was interesting to hear the questions that were raised…alot of them by students who are at Regent…but I think the most profound statement was by a student who had to work for 3 years before he could attend Regent as he had to make money to pay his tuition…he said being in the marketplace was the best place to prepare him for coming to Regent and knowing what he needed to learn and is excited about going back out into the marketplace. Some of the students were talking about not being prepared to be in the marketplace after completing Regent…I thought is observation was the best…he said it should be required that before you are accepted as a student at Regent you have had to have worked in the marketplace for at least 3 years. Darrell then mentioned that it was exactly for these kinds of people that Regent was started…for people in the marketplace who wanted to take some time to equip themselves to be better equipped to be part of the marketplace. Darrell also talked about creating a “Rule for Life” meaning we set down the things that are important to us to continue to develop spiritually including what is important to us overall and then draw up a Rule of Life and live by that. We also talked about keeping the Sabbath…reflecting on this…I think we have robbed our people of something huge as we have filled up every day of our lives in doing and not taking time every week to sit down and reflect on what is the most important in our life. I can see Jerry pointing his finger at me while he is reading this…I am the worst at this…making time for myself. These two weeks have been absolutely stretching in so many ways. I wish everyone had this opportunity to take two weeks out of there busy schedule and just spend it learning, drinking coffee, laughing, reading, discussing, praying…all the things we should be doing regularly but life just takes over and as we often believe that “busy” means “success” we keep ourselves busy, mostly doing nothing or things that really aren’t all that important. Well, enough for this rant!
I have heard from a few of you that you have been reading my blog, including Jordon, thanks for your comments. Hearing from you means that you have not forgotten about me, which is always one of my greatest fears, being one of those fearful things that I have carried over from my childhood…thanks to those who have dropped a hello…I look forward so much to sitting down over a cup of coffee and talking about life and the way life is as we walk with the Triune God.
Jerry, I was in the bookstore again this afternoon for about 3 hours…you need to know that I did put some of the books back on the shelf, but not all of them. I also tried to save money by only buying those on sale…it just so happens that the ones on sale really weren’t all that good…so I am so glad God has provided by giving you two days of overtime while I was here!!!!!!!
Til tomorrow….Louise is out with her cousin Alex this afternoon….they were renting mopeds so here’s hoping she gets back in one piece…and is was a beautiful morning with the sun shining…it is now cloudy but it is not raining.
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