|
|
The Long Walk 2010
|
Long listen to God
|
|
Long Walk 2008 was spent together with my wife, and my expectations for something happening or so high I didn't quite relax enough to get anything out of it.
Long Walk 2009 I spent alone at a park, my heart heavily burdened for the goals and purposes of my life.
This year, Long Walk 2010 I spent alone again, but the them was rest. I got up around 7 and did the morning prayer. Had breakfast with my wife and son, the left around 9 and just listened to where I should go. I felt God leading me to simply drive off into the back roads east of town. For the next hour and a half I listened to Brian's talk Boiling Point and recalibrate.
Have you ever just got in your car, opened your spirit to God and simply turned where he says to turn? It is an ironic and sometimes frustrating experience. Sometimes he just loops your around and around. Sometimes he leads you back to places he prompted you to turn but you didn't. And sometimes you start getting tired of going in loops and try to argue with him. I haven't found that to be productive, but I've done it. In the end the experience usually leaves me a bit more sinsitive to his leading.
Around 10:30 I found my self walking into a gas station and prompted to enjoy a cup of coffee and a donuts, something I never do. However, a few weeks ago I randomly had thought, "ya know, it might be fun to just get a coffee and a donut sometime on my way to work." I never have time to do that on the way to work, but it seems that God wanted to treat me.
Now, originally I had planed to go to a specific park on the other side of town. Instead, I found myself prompted to take an exit that was about 15 miles too early. I listened to the prompts, made my turn, and found myself near a small lake called Valley Water Mill. To my surprise I discovered there was a trail going around this lake and soon was on the path. Along the path I found one of my favorite natural phenomenons: cliffs. I sat, read my notes from last year, jotted down some new ones, and just enjoyed the spot. Here are a few of my notes:
I want to make the real, real, and the false, false in my life and in the world.
Help me, Jesus, to not simply look forward to doing your work, but to be doing it.
It seems that the coming of Jesus was not simply a method God chose to save us, but that it was the only solution, that it was a logical outcome, and the only act that could have been taken.
I read a journal entry from last year that basically says I feel driven to serve God, yet chained and held back by my limitations. I now realize I'm at peace with my limitations and the waiting that is involved in patiently growing fruit.
My pics are at: http://img16.imageshack.us/slideshow/webplayer.php?id=photo0081c.jpg
|
|
Matthew Epperson 07/10/2010 07:18 |
|
| |
Brian Hardin
|
07/10/2010 09:03 |
Fantastic story Matthew. I loved this one.
Blessings
Brian
|
|
