Turn, Turn, Turn

February 1, 2013 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

The Same but Different

Making everything Beautiful for it’s own Time

 

From the bright lights of Christmas we plunge into the dark nights of winterBright Lights
From the clutter and bustle of holiday shopping, preparations, activities and get-togethers
It’s back to work and school
We vow to eat less, spend less, and work out more
It’s quiet  – the trees are bare, the birds are hungry
Perhaps we just want to sleep, to catch up
Or maybe we can finally focus on new goals and projects
Maybe clean out the garage or the hall closet
Get organized.

Are we revived and renewed or worn out and depressed?

Soon it will be spring once again. Every year – four seasons and we look forward to each one.  Each one has its benefits.

 

For everything there is a season,
 a time for every activity under heaven.

A time to be born and a time to die.
 
A time to plant and a time to harvest.

 A time to kill and a time to heal.

A time to tear down and a time to build up.

A time to cry and a time to laugh.

A time to grieve and a time to dance.

A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.

A time to embrace and a time to turn away.

A time to search and a time to quit searching.

A time to keep and a time to throw away.

A time to tear and a time to mend.

A time to be quiet and a time to speak.

A time to love and a time to hate.

A time for war and a time for peace.
Eccl 3:1-8 TNL

 

 

Do you ever notice how different people can go through the exact same experience with different results?

How they can be presented with the same information,
Watch the same movie,Seasons
Read the same book,
Take the same class,
Eat at the same restaurant,
Vote in the same election,
Meet the same person,
All with different responses or reactions?

 

Maybe they are in different seasons of their lives…..

What do people really get for all their hard work?

I have seen the burden God has placed on us all.  Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.
He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. Eccl. 3: 9-11 TNL

 

Our journeys with God sometimes take crazy turns and we wonder what is going on. What is He up to?

God has much to show and teach us no matter what season we are in. Let Omniallinfinitude help empower your Journey.

We will begin blogging Journey Eight – Hot, Hot, Hot in June, 2013.

 

12 Blog Journeys
Investigating the attributes of God
Implementing the spiritual practices

Join our online blog experience and discover for yourself. If you are just beginning with us, please begin with Journey One – Highest Honors. Each Journey has it’s own blog and can be accessed from the Top Menu or from the left side bar. For more information please read Getting Started as well as this blog’s earlier posts below.

A click on the Current Journey graphic on the left will always take you straight to the blog to which we are posting at this time.  New blog posts appear on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Each Journey takes 8 weeks to completely post. If a Journey is fully posted, participants proceed at their leisure. If you submit your email address – you will be notified of each new blog post.

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Go here for Journey Three – Beyond Time and Space

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Go Here for Journey Five – Faithful and True 

Go Here for Journey Six – Good and Ready

Go Here for Journey Seven – Bright, White and Right

Go here for Getting Started information

 

Drop A Pin

August 31, 2012 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Taking stock

Are we coming or going?

I recently spent some time in a major US city well known for its freeways and traffic. Thank goodness for the map programs and apps now on most smart phones, tablets and computers…..the magic blue dot shows your exact location in the midst of all the chaos….Then you can put in your destination, get multiple routes, track the traffic along the way, and get an approximate time of arrival.

You can Drop a Pin on the map to mark your starting location, as well as where you hope to end up….

This got me to thinking…..perhaps we need to drop some pins along the way as we navigate life’s journey….and maybe we wouldn’t wander so, go in circles, or seem to sink into the mud.

 

Where are we? Where do we want to go?
Perhaps we’re living in exile….
Perhaps our good intentions never became a reality…
Perhaps we’re waiting for something, someone, we have so much to do before we can get started…..

 

No matter what our circumstances, life goes on…..and so must we.

 

This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives he has exiled to Babylon from Jerusalem: “Build homes, and plan to stay. Plant gardens, and eat the food they produce. Marry and have children. Then find spouses for them so that you may have many grandchildren. Multiply! Do not dwindle away! And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.” Jer. 29:5 NLT

 

Do you know where you are on your spiritual journey?
What have you been putting off?
What are you waiting for?
Things happen, we drift away, maybe its time to take stock and Drop a Pin.

 

There are natural breaks in the journey that give opportunities to start again.

Sometimes it’s a new season or season of life,
A new year, or a birthday that ends in a 0.
Sometimes it’s a life event whether planned or unplanned;
A marriage or divorce, an illness or death,
A new baby or a new job, a graduation, or a move to a new home,
A financial or natural disaster.
And sometimes you just know its time.

 

All good times to Drop a Pin….

Perhaps today is your day.

 

God has much to show and teach us no matter where or when we have dropped our pins. Let Omniallinfinitude help empower your Journey.

We will begin blogging  Journey Seven – Bright White, and Right in January, 2013.

 

12 Blog Journeys
Investigating the attributes of God
Implementing the spiritual practices

Join our online blog experience and discover for yourself. If you are just beginning with us, please begin with Journey One – Highest Honors. Each Journey has it’s own blog and can be accessed from the Top Menu or from the left side bar. For more information please read Getting Started as well as this blog’s earlier posts below.

A click on the Current Journey graphic on the left will always take you straight to the blog to which we are posting at this time.  New blog posts appear on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Each Journey takes 8 weeks to completely post. If a Journey is fully posted, participants proceed at their leisure. If you submit your email address – you will be notified of each new blog post.

Go here for Journey One – Highest Honors

Go here for Journey Two – The One and Only

Go here for Journey Three – Beyond Time and Space

Go Here for Journey Four – Large and In Charge

Go Here for Journey Five – Faithful and True 

Go Here for Journey Six – Good and Ready

Go here for Getting Started information

Holding Pattern

April 27, 2012 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Been down this road before

Are we there yet?

Beginning a journey is always exciting,
The anticipation…
The planning and preparation…

You’re finally ready, walk out the door and off you go!

 

But you soon discover the journey is long, and sometimes boring. It takes time to get where you’re going – and along the way there are roadblocks and detours, breakdowns and distractions.

 

Sometimes you stop, or take a wrong turn, or turn around and go back. On one road a bridge is out, on another a tree down, still another, a mudslide across the road.

 

It’s always good to have some traveling companions – and you quickly recognize, to your benefit, that some look straight ahead, some enjoy the company and some the view, while others are always checking out the rear view mirror. You watch out for each other, inspire each other, distract each other, misunderstand each other.

Are we there yet? How much longer?
Who knows?

 

Haven’t we been down this road before?  It seems so familiar, like we’re going in circles.  Round and round, circling the runway, but never landing.

 

How do we break away, break out of this wilderness?
How do we turn our dreams into reality?
How many times do we have to learn this lesson?

 

Just over the next hill or around the next curve, we look for a sign, any sign – but there is nothing to see for miles and miles, in all directions. There is no gas, food, water or cell coverage. Just the road… and the journey goes on.

 

Have we wandered into danger? Are there enemies all around? Can’t we go back to ordinary and boring?

 

Do you ever notice how the seasons are just long enough – how we are always ready for the next one, even though they are the same every year. Each life journey has its seasons – the wintertime and the summertime and over and over again.

 

God has much to show and teach us no matter what season our journey is in. Let Omniallinfinitude help empower your Journey.

We will begin blogging Journey Six – Good and Ready in early September, 2012.

 

12 Blog Journeys
Investigating the attributes of God
Implementing the spiritual practices

Join our online blog experience and discover for yourself. If you are just beginning with us, please begin with Journey One – Highest Honors. Each Journey has it’s own blog and can be accessed from the Top Menu or from the left side bar. For more information please read Getting Started as well as this blog’s earlier posts below.

A click on the Current Journey graphic on the left will always take you straight to the blog to which we are posting at this time.  New blog posts appear on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Each Journey takes 8 weeks to completely post. If a Journey is fully posted participants proceed at their leisure. If you submit your email address – you will be notified of each new blog post.

Go here for Journey One – Highest Honors

Go here for Journey Two – The One and Only

Go here for Journey Three – Beyond Time and Space

Go Here for Journey Four – Large and In Charge

Go Here for Journey Five – Faithful and True 

Go here for Getting Started information


Clear a path, Make some room, Time to go!

February 7, 2012 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Freshman Year is Over

It’s time to take off the training wheels.

So far we’ve just gotten our feet wet – now its time to get in the water up to our knees.

Flicker image credit: Manky M.

We’re leaving the flatlands, moving into the foothills
So the road will get bumpier,
Steeper and longer,
But more adventurous.
And we’re going to get a little more personal.

Our extended stay of rest is over.

As we move into year two of our Omniallinfinitude journey take some time to ponder how far we’ve come;
what we’ve learned,
what we’ve practiced,
what we’ve been able to apply to our lives,
what we’ve experienced along the way.

Are we are ready to incorporate some new things into our journey and leave some of the baggage we’ve been carrying along the way?

Maybe it’s time to stop reading someone else’s book, and start writing our own.

Journey Five – Faithful and True will begin in early May 2012.

 

 

 

12 Blog Journeys
Investigating the attributes of God
Implementing the spiritual practices

Join our online blog experience and discover for yourself. If you are just beginning with us, please begin with Journey One – Highest Honors. Each Journey has it’s own blog and can be accessed from the Top Menu or from the left side bar. For more information please read Getting Started as well as this blog’s earlier posts below.

A click on the Current Journey graphic on the left will always take you straight to the blog to which we are posting at this time.  New blog posts appear on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Each Journey takes 8 weeks to completely post. If a Journey is fully posted participants proceed at their leisure. If you submit your email address – you will be notified of each new blog post.

Go here for Journey One – Highest Honors

Go here for Journey Two – The One and Only

Go here for Journey Three – Beyond Time and Space

Go Here for Journey Four – Large and In Charge 

Go here for Getting Started information


There’s no time like the PRESENT

July 19, 2011 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

What are YOU waiting for?

It seems we’re always waiting for something.

For something to start or end,
For things to calm down,
For the times when we will the have time…… to start a new thing.

There’s always something else we need to do first.
Something more important, or demanding, out of our control.

We wait for more time,
more money, better health,
a better job, the water to boil,
the kids to grow up,
for the line to get shorter,
for the sun to come out,
for our trials to be over.

We even sit in rooms set up especially for waiting.
We wait, and wait, and wait…..

 

Well, the wait is finally over.

 

 

It’s time….time for Omniallinfinitude™.

12 Blog Journeys
Investigating the attributes of God
Implementing the spiritual practices

We have completed blogging Journey Three – Beyond Time and Space.  Journey Four – Large and In Charge will begin in January, 2012.

Join our online blog experience and discover for yourself. If you are just beginning with us, please begin with Journey One – Highest Honors. Each Journey has it’s own blog and can be accessed from the Top Menu or from the left side bar. For more information please read Getting Started as well as this blog’s earlier posts below.

A click on the Current Journey graphic on the left will always take you straight to the blog to which we are posting at this time. New blog posts appear on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Each Journey takes 8 weeks to completely post. If a Journey is fully posted participants proceed at their leisure. If you submit your email address – you will be notified of each new blog post.

Journey Four – Large and In Charge will begin in late 2011.

Go here for Journey One – Highest Honors

Go here for Journey Two – The One and Only

Go here for Journey Three – Beyond Time and Space

Go here for Getting Started information

 

Enjoy the Journey.

It’s time.



PAUSING to enjoy the view

June 21, 2011 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Refresh and Reflect between Journeys

No matter what kind of journey you are on, along the way you will need to take an off ramp, visit a rest stop, have a picnic, take a picture, visit a friend, take a nap.

We need time to read the map, plan the next phase of our journey, review where we’ve been, enjoy the moment, rest up, catch our breath and get prepared to go again.

Between each of our Omniallinfinitude Journeys we will be taking a couple weeks off of blogging for this very purpose.

However – we are never without suggestions for you as you enjoy this change of pace.

 

Here are some things you can do while you wait for Journey Three  - Beyond Time and Space to begin in late July.

  • Continue to practice Silence, Solitude, Prayer and Fasting
  • Read the Gospel of Mark
  • See a good movie
  • Meet your neighbors
  • Pay attention
  • Walk on the beach
  • Try a new recipe
  • Look at the stars
  • Watch the sunrise
  • Go on a road trip

 

 

 

Join us in late July for Journey Three – Beyond Time and Space.
Until then, enjoy the Pause.

 

Make Omniallinfinitude part of your Journey

April 26, 2011 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

GOD

Does it matter what we think?

12 Blog Journeys
Investigating the attributes of God
Implementing the spiritual practices

We are currently blogging Journey Two – The One and Only.

Join our online blog experience and discover for yourself. If you are just beginning with us, please begin with Journey One – Highest Honors. Each Journey has it’s own blog and can be accessed from the Top Menu or from the left side bar. For more information please read Getting Started as well as this blog’s earlier posts below.



A click on the Current Journey graphic on the left will always take you straight to the blog to which we are posting at this time. New blog posts appear on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Each Journey takes 8 weeks to completely post. If a Journey is fully posted participants proceed at their leisure. If you submit your email address – you will be notified of each new blog post.

Journey Three – Beyond Time and Space, will begin in mid July, 2011.

 

 

 

Go here for Journey One – Highest Honors

Go here for Journey Two – The One and Only

Go here for Getting Started information

 

Enjoy the Journey.


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