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| Margaret Feinberg ... author, speaker, friend |
Several years
ago Julie and I met Margaret
Feinberg and her husband Leif. Through the last almost eight years, her
writing, speaking and friendship has been an inspiring place for me to go to
hear from and to fall more in love with God.
Further their friendship has meant much to me.
I ask you to
join me in praying for Margaret’s health as she has battled breast cancer. Last reports are very good, and she continues
to write and speak at events across the nations. I recently picked up one of her books that I
read a couple years ago and was blessed again by the fresh encounter with our
loving and living God.
Our family
continues the tradition of family devotions each night (thanks to Dave and Jean Ohlerking of
www.childrenscup.org that kick started this tradition). Last night’s question or observation or
thought was about the people who help us find our happy place. This is the people who when we are around
them we are more at ease and peaceful.
Several different people came to mind, but the one who stood out was
Margaret.
So, in this
devotion I want to give you a few quotes from some of her incredible books:
“I call them sacred echoes because I
noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same
scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no
longer avoid its presence." - The
Sacred Echo
“God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at
the same time; responding requires movement." - Hungry
for God
“And God did not just ask for the
perfect sheep; He also wanted its wool.
Deuteronomy 18:4 instructs shepherds to give the first shearing of the
sheep as on offering to God. Above the crackling warmth radiating from the
stove, I read the verse aloud to Lynne.
"Is a first shearing a once-in-a-lifetime offering?" I asked.
"Yes, everybody wants the first shearing, especially if it's from
one of your best lambs. The first
shearing is the finest fleece that's used to the best clothes...to ask for that
is a real sacrifice." ... For the
first time in a long while, maybe ever, I had felt with my own hands what God
desired from sacrifice. It was nothing
like what I expected...In asking for the first fleece, God isn't asking for the
biggest. He wants to smallest and the
softest. He doesn't want more-He wants
the best." - Scouting
the Divine
“Wide awake to the presence of God, I
realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to
happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was
missing the who.” - Wonderstruck
“Scripture breathes wisdom like we
breathe oxygen. It can't not. Through Scripture, God reveals himself. This wisdom cannot be captured, let alone
contained, on a neon bumper sticker or rubber bracelet. Wisdom itself invites us to go deeper- right
into a relationship with God himself.
Through wisdom, we learn to love God and love what he loves. We find rich counsel on the life we were
meant for- in our families, communities, and world. We discover our personal responsibilities to
others. And we unearth how to put love
into action." - Organic
God
Click
on any of the links after the quotes to find more info about Margaret
Feinberg’s books or even to order them, but what I really pray for from today’s
post is that you and I will grow more and more in our desire to get alone with
God who desires to spend time with us and loves us more than we will ever know.
Psalm 42:1 NLT
As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.
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