John, several times I’ve read your posts and gone ‘Dude, that guy stole my line!’ You should be very VERY afraid that I think you think like I do.

Last night, I was musing about wow, how much real the world is since I’ve become a Christian: that “sea of faces” is actually made of people. Who’d of thunk it?

Then, in my normal one-thought-leaps-across-my-brain-to-somewhere-else, it hit me, hey, my name is tim, that starts with “t”, that looks like a cross… hey my life has really started at the Cross. hmm, all sorts of levels to that.

Anyway, thanks for caring enough to respond, and keep ‘em coming, I need to have my old brain stretched more.

So, see? Totally different.

Okay, fine. FINE! Yours is better.

And yes, by the way, you DO now have to go buy one of my books. That's the rule. So often I have to TELL people that's the rule. Thank goodness you naturally intuited it. That totally saves me the trouble of having to send to you, as I always do to new commentators, 20 to 30 emails until they buy a book. (Hey, if you're really going to buy one of my books, buy it here:

http://www.heartsandmindsbooknotes.blogspot.com/

If you scroll down about halfway, you'll see some stuff this great bookdealer said about my two Christian books. I'd like to send some business his way; he's a great guy, doing great things for our faith. Thanks.)

And the fascinating truth is that to do any ONE of those things fully and well is to automatically do the other two.

In a very real way, each of those three aspects of the Christian experience directly relate to one of the aspects of God found in the Holy Trinity. The first, being about where you bring yourself to God above, speaks to the Father. The second, being about where you, as a human, meet God, speaks to Jesus. And the third, being about what you actually DO in the world, speaks to the Holy Spirit within you. It's really a wonderful little package.

Anyway, thanks so much for visiting here, and for leaving your wonderful thoughts. God bless you, friend.

I recently discovered crosswalk, and through it you articles. You often make me think (ouchie that hurts) and always make me smile. I just wanted to comment on this month old article (that I just found today, the last day of August). It dawned on me reading it that maybe, just maybe what God's plan ™ for me is:

1)To Love God more than myself

2)To know God better than myself

3) and as a function of 1 and 2, to serve God more than myself

And the really REALLY cool thing: if I do the first part of 1,2,3 (the God part) I'll get second part (the myself part) in a far more cool and REAL way than if i had only tried to do the second part without the first.

Am I nuts? I'm new to the Christian gig, I tried it in college, but never "got" it. Now, here I am 41 and God has made it really clear that I'm His. And like you I had my conversion at work (in an empty conference room instead of a supply closet) andI had a coworker helping me through it instead of being alone.

Thanks fer listenin'

tim

Strange, this is exactly what I needed to hear. Or maybe not so strange. God always knows. He knew I would be struggling in my thirties, and in His mercy He made it so I would come across such helpful discussion/ people. It blows my mind. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

No, but good thought. Extremely apropos. (Now there's a word that's a lot more fun to say than type.)