PoM 198
It’s always about the food…
There’s a joke about the two old women on an ocean liner:
“The food here is so bad.”
“Yeah…and the portions are so small.”
We are staying in my third favorite place in America…Humbolt Redwood State Forest
But, as with my second favorite place in America, the Mississippi Delta…the food sucks here.
Alona had to point that out to me… “Go where the good food is.”
PoM 199
I’m teaching Alona to drive.
We start driving winding, curvy, gravel roads in the mountains.
She uttered suddenly: “The good thing about driving here is the curves are so sharp and dangerous…You have to man up and have balls.”
I’m sure they’ll clean up that expression on her tombstone…But, you get the drift.
PoM 200
Sometimes the clearest way to know what God’s will is, is to NOT get what you want.
There was something I wanted, and was using all my social gifts to open up doors to another avenue of service, this time to 500 underserved kids in a poor mountainous region with no musical instruction for the last 2 1/2 years.
I have taught music for over half a century, and while I could not possibly work for the money they were offering, I was exploring at least giving them a free weekend seminar.
But, after three days of laying groundwork, God shut that down very quickly tonight.
I believe, for the next three years, God wants me to write, as much as I possibly can, all that I know about recovery and spirituality, and that music for profit, or even for free, noble benefits, needs to be laid aside.
PoM 201
My wife and I were talking about driving on dirt, back roads at the appropriate 15 miles per hour.
I told her when I was 15 my friend and I would drink beer and race each other on the back dirt roads at 40 miles per hour.
For just a nanosecond, I thought about how fun and pleasant that was.
But, snapping back into reality, I honestly would rather sweat bullets and run hard now in my life than drink beer.
Thank God for sanity.
PoM 202
Six years ago, in 2015, former President Jimmy Carter said something that was very intriguing spirituality, to me: “Justice for women is going to be the highest priority for the rest of my life”.
What if we applied that, not to justice, but to spirituality for women, as one of our quietly understated goals?
Women see sex differently than men. Ask any man who is trying to make progress with a woman in a romantic way if that is true.
Women see money differently. Ask any advertising agency if that is accurate and true, in their approach to marketing.
Then, is it possible that women may see God differently…from their own perspective? Maybe not wildly differently from men, but uniquely differently?