Tell me about yourself. Everything. Tell me who you really are. I’d like to hear about all the good things you’ve experienced, the things that have given you the greatest joy in life, and all that makes your life exciting. I have always taken delight in my followers sharing with me their joys and successes….
Month: December 2018
Attend to the Center: I Stand at the Door, Day 5
In order that you do not miss my word, I want you to designate a special time each day when you quiet your mind, turn your attention toward the center of your consciousness, and listen. Listen through the thoughts that flood into your mind. Listen through the static, through the distractions, through flights of fantasy…
Attend to My Love: I Stand at the Door, Day 4
You will be surprised also that I do not condemn you. I bring you love that you have never before experienced – unconditional, unmerited, unending. Knowing my love for you, you must not be afraid to listen to me. My people have been deaf; they keep turning away, letting my words be lost in the…
Attend to Me: I Stand at the Door, Day 3
Give me your attention. Nurture the faint awareness that you have already felt. I am indeed alive and nearer to your consciousness than you’ve ever dared believe. Open yourself to the persuasion of my presence. I continue to come to you, to engage you at a deeper and deeper level of your awareness. Let yourself…
Listen to Me: I Stand at the Door, Day 2
Ben Johnson’s book, I Stand at the Door, is written in the first person. The voice is the one who comes knocking on our door – the one for whose birth we await. Listen to these words, imagining they are Christ’s words to you and me and the church in our time. “Behold, I stand at…
I Stand at the Door – First Sunday of Advent
Today we begin. We enter the season of expectation and waiting on this the first Sunday of Advent. Our theme at Heritage this Advent is “Open the Door” and our theme scripture comes from Revelation 3:20 – “Listen! I stand at the door and knock; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will…
Preparation
It was a week ago now that we were entering a beautiful fall day in Kansas, filled with sunny blue skies and temperatures in the 60’s. Twenty-four hours later, we would be busily preparing for a real-life-national-weather service-dubbed blizzard. Only in Kansas. Where there is no place like home. The day of Blizzard 2018 for…