Old ground, new insights

August 31, 2009

As I have said in different ways, I cherish the time I can have alone with God. To have the opportunity give yourself time to have the Lord minister deep into your spirit or instill new vision is a blessing of incredible value. I thank the Lord and my wife that I was able to make use of this opportunity. I won't share everything that took place in my time away because they are too personal but there are certain aspects that I would like to share.

I had a sense from the beginning that God wanted to do some fundamental, foundational work in me to prepare me for the next season. The picture I had was that of a lump of clay or a blank canvas that He wanted to mould our paint to create something new. What could this mean, I thought that at my age the moulding and painting was already done. It seems that God is always working on us to produce the person He has designed us to be.

Part of this process, I have discovered is that there are times that He reveals areas of our past that we feel we have covered. You know those pictures in our past that have caused some degree of pain. We look at them and then deal with them, right. Well sometimes he will return there because we have not completely dealt with all the pain these pictures can produce. For me this happened because He was saying it was time to go deeper, remove the boulders that were hindering me from building that clean, strong foundation I wanted for my life. That foundation that is built on knowing the love of the Father and living out of the identity He has given me.

He and I did this work using a combination of scripture, dreams, spiritual direction and prayer. By spending time in silence with Him He did some serious house cleaning and helped me to more clearly receive His love and walk in who He has created me to be. What a wonderful gift.

Its interesting that after this cleansing and building He is also continuing to say wait, walk each day with me and I will show you new things. My prayer is that I will have the courage to wait for Him and not run ahead in my own strength. This is a challenge, but He is with me and will lead me into His righteousness. Thank you Lord.
Blessings,
Glenn

Where to from here

August 11, 2009

Well we are back and we are glad. As we expected we hit the ground running which was very good. Mira was busy from the get go and I also had stuff to jump into.

I realized quickly, though, that I (Glenn) needed to spend some time with the Lord to see what this next season held. There were a few options but the one that seemed best, quite quickly, was taking an 8 day silent retreat and Loyola House in Guelph.

I know what you are thinking, Glenn taking off 8 days and then not talking. This cannot be possible. Well I want to set your minds at ease. This silent retreat would be my fourth and I must say that I love to spend that time talking to God, reading His word, listening to God in a beautiful silence. I tell you it is inspiring and invigorating.

I did this retreat from August 1-9 and am now going over my journalling and sorting out some of the things the Lord spoke.

I will take some time to think, pray and evaluate and then I think that I will share some of those things with you in this blog. I don't know if this is the forum for this kind of thing but I feel compelled to share the goodness of who the Father is with others. This will be a start.

Blessings to all,

Glenn