DELIGHTFUL

This time of year seeing the sun brighten up the morning walk makes it delightful.  Then it was off to Vera Faders for lunch with the Jetlag Bible group.  She had made several phone calls to check on the ingredients that she put into the hearty soup she made.  We were all talking about the miracle of the minners being resced.  We are starting a study of the whole Bible but although we have a study guide we wander off the topic a lot.

There always things that come out of the readings that stir up a response within me.  Reading about the history of the past and all the discoveries that are being dug up and examined in the earth has strengthened my faith in the scripture.  How the world was created is beyond our comprehension but believing that God created man with his own hands out of the dust of the earth as his final act that was completed with Eve; gives humanity a dignity and a purpose as the very life of God has been breathed into their souls.  We have been given minds to discover the truth and the ability to make choices and the awareness of our vulnerability.

We talked about some of the beautiful places that awaken in us delight in the beauty that surrounds us.  We laugh a lot which helps us not get stuck in being dogmatic and rigid.  I am so thankful for Luther who failed to find God's love in a monastery with fasting and prayer and denial of comforts.  He left to begin a critical study of the Bible and to find out what the church had kept hidden.

Reading the scripture for it's transforming power that was to be applied to our everyday walk with God allows the creative spirit within each one of us to emerge.  We are stirred to keep thinking about what we are reading and find what opens the spirit within us.

Words are powerful tools and the scriptures create a love and appreciation for language that can be poetic and full of imagination if we can discover what inspired the writers but also realizing they had their own interpretations of life as it was being lived around them.  Stories of the past would be added to  until it became written down. 

The gift of faith helps us unwrap what we are reading.

I came home and dad and I had an early supper on our front porch in the sunlight. The beginning of the end of the delightful day.

God in Genesis 1 was delighted with all of creation and desired to share his delight with us.