09.22.07
Posted in Main at 9:46 pm by amshaner
It never ceases to amaze me how just a little trip outside for a walk, run or any other kind of excercise is good for the soul. Have you ever gone for a walk by yourself, no agenda, nothing to do, just walk? It can be such a spiritual experience. I think alot of this has to do with the fact that God originally designed us to be the overseers of his creation. Adam was given the job in Genesis by God to look after the plants and animals. I find that this experience is especially powerful when i am listening to my most recent download of Christian music on my iPod. It just seems an apropriate outlet for worship. Experiencing God’s creation. Maybe that is why i have such fond memories of camp growing up as a kid. The evening devotionals on creation ridge, watching the sun setting, experience that, and then try to tell me that there is no God.
So get out and go for a walk, and experience the creation that we were created to be a part of!
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09.12.07
Posted in Main at 9:54 pm by amshaner
Tonight on my way home from Bible study, I was stopped at a red light, and i was dancing in my car to the music on the radio. No biggie right? Well then i look over and notice that not only is the girl to the left of my also dancing in her car, but the two guys on the right are bobbin to their music too! So here we are the first three cars in a row all dancing to our radios. What are the chances? We probably looked a little silly or maybe like we rehearsed this little show of choreography.
Have you ever thought of life as a song? There is something that connects each one of us to the rest of the world, kind of like a spiritual umbilical chord. Wow, that was kind of gross, sorry. But seriously in Ecclesiastes, Solomon writes that God has placed, “eternity in the hearts of men, yet man cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” There is something that makes all humans move to the beat when we hear music, some of us move to a different beat. Its like there is a spiritual music staff running through all of us. Some of us are one key, some are way off but we are at least aware of it. Others still are singing a completely different song and don’t care.
Psalms 65 says it this way, “Oh, visit the earth, ask her to join the dance! Deck her out in spring showers, fill the God-River with living water. Paint the wheat fields golden. Creation was made for this!
There is something inside us all that makes us want to dance. The question is whether or not you will join that dance that the earth is calling you to?
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