| My personal spiritual growth as a follower of Jesus | | | | during a spontaneous dinner date... |
| takes place... | | | | Causes me to cherish the joy of the moment -- and |
| In many ways, | | | | the moments that have become years. |
| At different times, | | | | __________ |
| And in a variety of settings. | | | | Taking enough time to carefully review a passage of |
| One way is simply by taking enough time. | | | | Scripture -- allowing it to challenge my mind, release |
| Time to take the right actions, develop the right | | | | my emotions, stimulate my imagination, and invade my |
| attitudes and strengthen the right values. | | | | privacy -- |
| While reflecting on your own personal spiritual growth, | | | | Prompts me to regain perspective, marvel at the depth |
| allow yourself more than a few seconds to meditate | | | | of His grace, and reaffirm my dependence of His |
| on these thoughts before the Lord. | | | | wisdom for all I need to know about all of life. |
| __________ | | | | __________ |
| Taking enough time to interact with a true friend... | | | | Taking enough time to enjoy a "prayer walk with |
| Contributes to my understanding of what the terms | | | | God"... |
| "relationship" and "Christian community" can (and | | | | Encourages me to stop long enough to live life before |
| should) mean. | | | | the life I live mournfully reveals that its true meaning lies |
| __________ | | | | imprisoned in my own haphazardly built cage. A cage |
| Taking enough time to reflect on a chorus whose | | | | known as "too much to do." |
| words quite easily find their way onto the secret | | | | __________ |
| pathways of my heart... | | | | Taking enough time to absorb the meaning of words |
| Creates in me a desire to know more of the One I | | | | from an insightful author... |
| seem to know so little. | | | | Stretches the tendons of my mental framework and |
| __________ | | | | forces me to process life beyond the spiritual |
| Taking enough time to assimilate the possible | | | | playground on which I so often most comfortably |
| implications of a late breaking report on the evening | | | | expend my energies. |
| news... | | | | __________ |
| Causes me to seek God's face regarding my role in a | | | | Taking enough time to quiet my heart before the Lord |
| complex, somewhat bewildering, and ever needy | | | | during a worship service... |
| mosaic known as "the world in which I live." | | | | Allows me to journal my child-like attempts to |
| __________ | | | | recognize His voice and decipher the musings of my |
| Taking enough time to enjoy the brightness of my | | | | soul as they lay disarmingly exposed before His |
| wife's eyes as seen from the other side of a table | | | | presence. |