Silly Spiders in the Spirit! 

Yeah I could claim that I was supposed to “run into” one friend last night, who was one of the many organizers at a camp retreat event for 3day 3night immersion into deeper growing in faith. I perhaps was supposed to run into LOTS of people, or not. I was just there because I could. I had the time. I wanted to be “an encourager” – a warm body even but surely a warm soul with a smile. I wanted to be with “my people” if only for an hour before driving home. I could also state that I wanted to absorb the feel of camp for just a few minutes without staying and yes the drive in the green rolling hills of farmland was worth it – the stream was worth it – the peace was palatable.

I could say I was supposed to chat with her in particular for our conversation that compared OUR attitudes to the differences of this year to last year,  when we both were on the organization team. This year I felt that I was not going to be on the team, maybe next year. THis year I felt the Lord had different plans for me. And for her, this year felt different too, in being on this organizing committee, so much more understanding that she didn’t have to understand the whole plan, in that she said she felt MORE peace in letting the Lord handle the weekend, the interactions, the service with a spirit smile while helping others in their faith journey. 

Simply stating that it’s good for ALL of ourselves to get ourselves out of THE way of the Lord’s Way, and LET the Lord place us in His Purpose FOR a plan for SOMEONE ELSE, yeah, and give us the PEACE OF MIND to be OK. To let the Lord use us without us knowing everything. 

A road to SOMEWHERE. 

I was listening to the perky tune, great for driving later at night home, “I’m on a Road to Nowhere” as sung by the Talking Heads… love that song for the beat…  But I am not interpreting the lyrics good or bad, just to compare it to the path of a road to SOMEWHERE that the Lord knows rather than a road to nowhere that you don’t even have direction to get there.

And maybe we are simply to be simple in spirit knowing the Lord has this Road to SOMEWHERE – and scripture tells us to work hard while we are riding along the Spirit highways of life. Paul said in a letter to the 1 Thessalonians 5:12-14 “Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.

Oh the spiders? Well, I’ve been helping a mutual friend of ours pack her house – and this bag of halloween shiny sparkle spiders kept getting in the way and i was going to use it as fluff stuffing – but my friend told me to just take the spiders for any reason but to just get it out of the mix of the things were were packing. Later she reminded me that perhaps I had found a purpose for them – no I hadn’t even gotten them out of the car – and then, haha, my camping friend started to complain about the bugs and maybe a big spider would show up in her room. Mentally I immediately remembered the sparkly spiders in my car – plastic of course – and yeah…  where did they end up? on her bed…  Just some humor of being nowhere but somewhere but no idea why and just being in the moment…  Well, there is no spiritual connection to the spiders, but there is a moment to thank the Lord for our mindset to set ourselves in His Positions. It was not the most spiritual thing of spiders, it was just fun. And if we have peace, we can have fun too….

Amen

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.

AMEN!!!