As 2015 begins I feel the blogging juices bubbling up again. This makes me happy because I love to communicate and through blogging I can communicate with you from home in the comfort of my bathrobe- what could be better?
In the interest of full disclosure, I admit that this Sailing Life blog will have very little to do with actual boats on water. Instead it will float on the metaphor of the wind as Holy Spirit-God who is always nudging our messy lives/church/world toward good. Making friends with this Wind seems to me to be the thing that empowers and guides everything else. At least I find that when I get over myself and let God lead, I seem to end up in more blessed places that I can navigate to by myself.
To get started here’s a nugget from a wild woman of God
We learn through pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can’t find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you’ll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you’ll see at least one next right step to take.
Anne Lamott
Help, Thanks, Wow (I really like this book)
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Joan, I have been using your sailboat idea as my little choir and I struggle to find our way. We have lost many of our strongest voices lately, and “row” as hard as I might, I can’t fix it. We have spent time in prayer in rehearsals asking the Wind of the Spirit to take us where he wants us to go. The choir likes the “sailboat choir” idea, for which I have given you full credit!
Needless to say, I have bought your book! If we EVER get together again, I’d like you to sign a copy that I bought for my Methodist pastor. She reminds me of you 🙂
With love and gratitude, my dear friend and sister in the Lord,
Dorothy
Joan, thanks for these thoughts. I think I’ve been fighting the Wind instead of making friends with it. I too, like Anne Lamott’s book. In fact, I’m going to take it out right now! Tamara Puffer
Yeah God! And thanks for reading.