BFF

I learned a new phrase yesterday: BFF - Best Friends Forever! Of course, the pastor was talking about God being our best Friend.

(I learned a new phrase from Pat Sajak this evening on Wheel of Fortune, too! He said, "Roll me in corn meal and call me a hot dog!" Now that doesn't cost you anything -- it's free, for whatever it's worth. I thought it was cute.)

Back to the pastor's message yesterday. She pointed out how we would and would not treat an earthly friend with whom we claimed to be Best Friends Forever. She emphasized that when we phone a best friend, for example, we don't talk just about ourselves and then immediately hang up. Our friendship is a two-way street. Then she clinched her message with the following challenge which she had learned in seminary: "If you have twenty minutes to pray, talk to God ten minutes and then give God ten minutes to talk to you." You may not hear a voice, although you could, but you might get a thought. Or a portion of Scripture might drop into your being, or a hymn. Or an idea of how to bless someone in need, etc. But at least be quiet and give God an opportunity to converse with you, however He decides to do it.

I was with a group yesterday afternoon when a perplexing situation came up which I am not at liberty to discuss on my blog. A solution popped into my mind, but I said nothing as no one asked for my opinion and I would have been interfering in another family's life. This morning I received an email from a member of that family who said she was trying to put the pastor's suggestion into action. As she waited quietly at the end of her prayer, the same suggestion came to her that had come to me! Talk about confirmation!

And so I pass the challenge on to you. However much time you spend in God's presence, talk to Him for half of it then listen to Him for the remaining half! You might be surprised what He'll tell you!

Preacher's Kid