Ok God - What do you really wantt?

OK - God what do you really want?

I read on a blog - yesterday I think -but I don’t remember which one - that the blogger writes in order to learn how to write ( at least this one did) - and that stuck me as a basic truth - it makes sense - we learn by doing - and so I think that is what I am attempting to do here - learn how to write - which is something I’ve wanted to do since I was 15. ( and yes that is a loooooonggggggggg time ago)

 And so maybe that is, in part, why I became a pastor - so that I could be forced to write every week - or almost anyway. Not necessarily what I have to say - but what needs to be said through me……it is all about God after all…

It seems rather presumptuous to say that I ‘want’ to write - after all what in the world could I possible say that anyone would want to hear ? What in the world could I possibly write that anyone would want to read? I’m not Stephen King or Anne Dillard .. But maybe they feel inadequate too, I have no idea……….

Anyway - this week’s gospel is the parable of the slaves and the talents -

(Matthew 25:31-46) both multiplied and buried. Talents - not as in $$$ - but as in what God has given us to use to do God’s work - abilities, skills, aptitude

(remember those tests??) etc….. All tho depending on who you read it could be $$, stewardship, end times, judgment or all of the above.

Maybe summed up in Micah 6:8, What does God require of us?

‘He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? ‘

What else is there?

But this is hard work - this is that transition point between taking the risk or not - settling into complacency - that point at which we make a crucial decision - follow the yearnings of your (my) heart - or squash it all into perpetual silence… except that God’s calling is never really squashed - buried maybe for a while - like the talent of the 3^rd slave - but the voice - that small still voice will have it’s day…………. .

And will not be denied…… transitions indeed………..

And so another night of crunch and slurp - the dogs are dreaming in frantic motion on the floor beside me…my spouse is snoring gently in the other room, the full moon is making dancing patterns on the floor as I try to make sense of God‘s world and my place in it. Maybe we are not meant to understand - I don’t really believe that - but it’s hard - this understanding stuff - but then ……God never promised us an easy journey - God did promise a journey that is led by an experienced guide - the original trailblazer Himself………..Christ our Lord and King…………………..sleep well my late night friends …. May it all be well with your soul................
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