September 2020

I didn’t start journaling until after I fell for Jesus.  I may have started a diary, as a kid, but never kept it up beyond a day or so. I started talking to the Lord as soon as I knew He was listening back in 1975.  I was 22 years old.  In 1976 I started writing about ‘God stuff’ but soon I was writing to God about things.  It really was always directed to Him.  My first journal writings were usually when I was upset and crying out to God.  As I grew closer to Him, it was more frequent and not just in times of stress. So, here I am, over 40 years and 95 journals later, still journaling to God pretty much every day! It’s clearly not a ‘duty’, in fact, it is a discipline for me to limit my journal time.

From the journal. . . .December 2018

Lord, I miss it when I don’t have journal time with You.  I’ve set our Mission Project* as a higher priority each day, but that seems to limit my journal time.

And I Believe God Said:

Our relationship is not at all limited to your journals, or Bible study, or the mission project, or any one thing.  As you desire My company in every aspect of your life, so I come. When you pray, you are involved with My concerns.  When you read or study the Bible, you are learning and listening to Me.  My history; My life that has been documented.  When you journal, like now, I speak to you and you tell Me what’s on your mind and heart.  You need to do that.  It helps to settle you.  I give you peace in this day, but I am never limited to one mode of communicating.  Our life together is only the beginning of our relationship. Do you know that there is more to life than life?  Much, much more than life as you know it.  Truly I say to you that the best is yet to come.  A life with Me that is ever lasting- never ending.

1John 5:11. John 3:16 2Cor 4:17 Rev 21:3-4

Oh Lord. How above Amazing You are!  Beyond words or songs.  The name above all names.  The word above everything.  You are so beyond what I can grasp!  I would blow a fuse if You didn’t ‘de-fuse’ Yourself.  If You didn’t filter all You are.  Yet I know You do, and will enable me to receive more and more of You.

*The Mission Project is what I do with my journal writings.  If you want to know more, you can click on “About the journal” above this entry.