Spiritual guidance

        A most magnificent good morning from Bryce Canyon Utah, the Spirit is alive and well. This is what people call a thin space if you choose to sit more than a millisecond.  Joyous.

       Listening to the Spirit seems to punctuate the passage from Scripture today. I often wonder about how some people are so uncertain as to what path to take almost to the point of paralysis. Our human task is to live life, be who we are and also, in that process, to listen to the Spirit. Listening does not precede movement I don’t think but guides us. If God wants our attention she will get it by one means or another.  

           Today I plan on being, just being and taking in the unique Godliness of this location. A day of thankfulness in so many ways. That does not preclude some other agenda God may gave for me. This is true of us all and it surely makes life interesting and truly blessed.    

Acts 16:6-15

 They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. When they had come opposite Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them; so, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’ When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

 We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days. On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. A certain woman named Lydia, a worshipper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, ‘If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.’ And she prevailed upon us.