I should begin every blog with an apology if all I'm doing is getting in once a month.  I'll try to do better.  It's been a busy time.  Seems spring is aways like that.

The Tulsa International Soulwinning Workshop in late March was a shot in the arm as usual.  I enjoyed the workshop but enjoyed just as much the company of the three Bono couples who were my traveling companions.  I know in the past that Bono has taken a good-sized group but that "tradition" has faded somewhat in recent years.  We had five go last year and seven this year.  Maybe next year we'll hit double digits.

I had the opportunity to speak at Crowley's Ridge College chapel today.  They gave me the topic, "Lessons I've Learned on My Spiritual Journey."  Wow!  Almost too many to even know where to begin.  But I had to give them twelve minutes' worth, so I chose three:

(1) I've learned that learning of God never stops.  It can't since we are growing into the likeness of Jesus, a process that has a here-on-earth beginning and a there-in-heaven completion.  The growing is technically called "sanctification"--it means God is at work on us and in us making us holy and fit for His presence.  Each new discovery about God only exposes other aspects to probe.

(2) I've learned that there is no such thing as "luck" or "coincidence."  How can there be?  God has promised to "be with [us] always" and "bear [us] up on wings of eagles."  If He possesses the qualities we have taught He does, His omniscience always knows where we are and His power controls what is happening in our lives, except our sin.  And even there, He takes the clay and begins again to shape it.

(3) I've learned the joy of removing the phrase "I wish I had" from my speech and replacing it with "I am thankful for."  I now know that God is yet a "manna" God, making His provision for us, His children, in the amount needed for the day and for the challenge.  I also know to be very thankful that God didn't give me all I asked for in my great wisdom.

As you can see, it's a list that could go on and on.  What have you learned in your spiritual walk?