http://www.livingstorygrace.com Learning, living, and loving in God's story of grace Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:25:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just found this in my drafts box, after I had suggested it to a friend who was struggling with some of the same acceleration issues I was having...I'll post this today and go back to Buechner tomorrow! In the short time I’ve been here at the Synergy conference, I’ve heard humbling ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/speeding-and-grace/935/ Buechner says even if God wrote a message in the stars, it would not convince us: "We all want to be certain, we all want proof, but the kind of proof we tend to want -- scientifically or philosophically demonstrable proof that would silence all doubts once and for all -- ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/message-in-the-stars-buechner-continued/944/ If you read yesterday's blog on Road Signs, perhaps you thought, as I did, of Frederick Buechner's great sermon, collected in his book The Magnificent Defeat, where he ponders our desire to have God prove himself to us in some "objectifiably verifiable and convincing way".  He writes: "Suppose, for instance, that ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/message-in-the-stars-buechner/942/ I like my GPS friend, except when I don’t.  Yesterday was one of those days.  All I wanted to do was find the Florida Turnpike so I could get the heck out of Central Florida via I – 75…Homeward Bound, I was, and I still had time to make our ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/road-signs%e2%80%a6/936/ I'm headed toward Synergy (not as I type:), the conference for women (and men) in leadership to be held this weekend in Orlando, Florida.  Last week, I wrote some on the topic of my workshop, "Living the Gospel in Uncertain Stories:  What to Do with the What-if's."   While developing ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/the-questions-god-answers/932/ “We think less and less about the better things that Christ will bring us at his reappearance because our thoughts are increasingly absorbed by the good things we enjoy here. No one would wish persecution or destitution on another, but who can deny that at this point they might do ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/can-hope-grow-from-hopelessness/929/ Just one more piece on the Fall. This is excerpted from my new Bible study: Learning God's Story of Grace. When my children were aged 6 to 1 month, getting them all dressed and ready for church required the Herculean efforts of both my husband and me.  When he ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/not-the-way-its-supposed-to-be/926/ I'm preparing for the Learning Story Bible study at The Mission Anglican church in Pensacola (it's never too late to join us, 9:30 a.m., 601 Alcaniz).  Today we'll be looking at Genesis 3, the Fall, which tells us why things don't work in this world, and even worse, why we ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/paradise-lost/923/ Our eldest son, returning from a weekend retreat, was so eager to tell me about how for the first time he really began to understand the difference between living by the flesh and walking in the Spirit.  Yesterday, Brian Habig, the pastor of Downtown Pres. in Greenville, SC, said something ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/oh-we-crazy-galatians/918/ About to board an early flight for a quick trip to see my daughter in Furman, so here are a few of my favorite Madeleine L'Engle treasures for you this morning, from Walking on Water: “Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. ... http://www.livingstorygrace.com/lengle-on-story-words-and-writing/916/