Day 8

Day 8, August 10

All three of us, David, Kay and Rusty, slept through the night without having to get up or go out.  It was a blessing that we, at least the humans, asked for.  I like turning off the TV and getting to bed early, sleeping 8-9 hours and then waking up refreshed and early enough for quiet time and getting ready for the day before the day outside the door really begins.

Our devotions are showing many connections among the things Kay and I are reading, things that are happening, and our prayers.  Connections are good.   They are always there even if we don’t often see them.

I started reading SimChurch.  Wow!  It’s like a revelation that must be shared.  It’s not about the technology but the new world, even virtual world that the technological explosion has opened up.  Son, Russell, used to play an early computer game, SimCity.  This title is related.  It was a game about life.  Unexpectedly, the shift from the real world to the virtual world transformed what we had taken for granted into something meaningful.

DB says we Disciples of Jesus are needy in every way.  The original Disciples gave up everything.  “Now they are so poor, so inexperienced, so foolish that they cannot hope for anything except him who called them.”  Does a life of faith call us to be spiritually poor, emptying ourselves so Christ can fill us?