During the first week of every month I spend some time reading over the previous month’s journal entries.

Here are some thoughts from May that jumped out at me.

– Could it be that my persistent feeling that I am lacking something is not a burden, but actually a gift? It does keep me moving, searching, watching. “Divine discontent?”

– It isn’t doing things for God that I seek. I seek to do things with God. “Cooperate with the Spirit.” Relationship.

– Take time each day to choose one true statement that you want to pray.

– Some days I only do a little bit. So what?

– Pondering how we (creation, the universe, I, Christ) are one. “In Him we live and move and have our being.”

-A hermit crab on the beach has a better chance of grasping the ocean that I do the Creator.

– My friend, Buddy Phillips (who is my age), wrote something on social media about aging that resonates, perhaps haunts me a little. “We are homesick for a place and time that no longer exists, and that we can never revisit. Nor are we able to family who were there in our company but now only in our dreams.”

And finally,

– What do you give a God who that has everything? To say your heart feels like the quick and easy answer. I guess the trick is figuring out what that looks like.