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This past week I have been feeling odd or should I say odder than I usually fell. In talking to others, I haven\u2019t really been able to describe the way I have been feeling. Maybe it\u2019s a deeper sense that God is real, that God is working in my life, or that I am being prepared for some sort of wild adventure, a barbarian adventure. I simply don\u2019t know. Content walks in the rainy weather, hours of pondering and resting in the Lord, the sense that I have something to write but unsure of the content, this is what I have been feeling, sensing, experience this past week. What follows is a reflection back over the past couple of years, a reflection to try and help me figure out what God is doing in my life and calling me to do in the future. I am writing this for me, but if others can glean some insight from it too, so much the better.<\/p>\n
Let me set the context for this sojourn. My Christian life was a lot like the Dow \u2013 highs and lows but generally headed in an upward direction. Seminary, which should have been a time of meeting God, was in reality a time where academic pursuits replaced relational intimacy with God. I learned a lot about God, about how to interpret the Bible, about how to theologize about God, but I didn\u2019t spend time with God. It was a time of intellectual transformation, but not heart or relational transformation. So was this experience good or bad? I don\u2019t know, but God has used it to shape who I am today. In reality, all of my life experiences had shape who I am and how I live out my life.<\/p>\n
Next Up – A Little Bit of Context…<\/p>\n
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This is the first a number of blog postings I am calling “My Sojourn.” This past week I have been feeling odd or should I say odder than I usually fell. In talking to others, I haven\u2019t really been able to describe the way I have been feeling. Maybe it\u2019s a deeper sense that God … <\/p>\n
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