Humbled

Wow, I feel like a duffus right now. I head up the men's ministry at my church (Arlington Countryside Church) and we just had our weekly morning meeting. We are going through the teaching series by Rob Bell called "Nooma" and this morning we did the 5th video called Noise. He talks about the amount of noise in our life and how that can be tied to our inability to hear God. I think it is so true, and I always preach on the need to get away, slow down, and find times of Silence and Solitude. But do I do it? No. I know the benefits of journaling and reflecting. But do I do it? No. How long has it been since I journaled? Well on here, since October of last year. I say that I know this all to be true, then why don't I do it? I say that I want to hear God, but I don't create an environment for Him to speak to me.

But I am trying. I am making an effort. A feeble effort but it is a start. I have a mentor who I am accountable to. I have asked him to check up on me when we meet and to make sure I am doing some of the things that I say I want to do.

1. I will spend at least one day a week out in God's creation and away from chaos.

2. I will spend at least four days a week journaling my thoughts and prayers.

3. I plan to read Scriptures and at least two other texts that explain the discipline of fasting.

4. I plan to have at least 2 or 3 times were I spend a day fasting in the next semester.

5. I want to commit some passages of Scripture to memory as I have the Word with.

I wrote these cause I had to. Well I am in an SIL (Spiritual Integration Lab) at school and we had to write a Spiritual disciplines paper. I say I had to, but I think I needed that. At times we need to be told what we should do, and then learn to enjoy it.

So hopefully I will be on here on a more regular basis. But I think that a lot of my more intimate postings will be in my hand written journal and away from view of others. (Maybe a later post on the transparency of a lot of bloggers and the positives and negatives of that is due.)