dear tl,

I trust that you remember our regular daily schedule here at the School of Spiritual Direction (SSD). All morning we sit in class beginning with a long devotional from Larry out of Colossians (that he writes each day before the sun comes up) and then a study on the Seven Questions of Spiritual Theology (Who is God? What's He up to? Who are we? What went wrong? What did God do to remedy the problem? As a result, what is the Spirit up to now? How can we join Him?)... all as a foundation for listening to God's Spirit when we are drinking coffee with someone.

There are a few notes I've taken but mostly I just sit and let the lectures and 30-person conversation pour on my head. Here are a couple of notes I've made for myself, about myself, to myself:

• All my words are pregnant with something... what? Neediness, Power, Emptiness, Pull, Hope?
• When in conversation with someone about things that matter, am I hoping to repair damage or release life?
• When confused or don't know what to say, do I use it as an opportunity to quiet my soul or figure someone out?

And my favorite scribble to myself:

• I like the phrase "deifically alive"!

And I do. It comes from 2 Peter 1:4 as he speaks about you and I being participants in the Divine nature of God. And in doing so, I am Deifically alive! Although it's hard for me to pronounce, because of God's Spirit living within me, it's not so hard to believe!

Wow.
Do you today?