Feeling God Under a Shady Tree

Yes, I know school is out of session but I am assigning a homework project!!!

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Go out into God’s creation. Yes, the world around you...everything is God’s creation, the handiwork of God’s amazing plan. Take your Bible with you. Look around for a very large tree that is tall and has branches that extend far out from its trunk. Lie down on the ground under that tree and pause there quietly. Don’t worry if anyone sees you, they won’t think you have lost their mind...they will be envious of you taking that moment.

Lie there and look up into the branches above you, beyond you and around you. Just imagine them being the presence and arms of God standing over you and embracing you. Just stay there in that moment...many moments...many minutes.

Before you leave this moment, open your Bible and read Ephesians 3:14-19.

For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Remember how this moment feels and find this moment regularly in your life. May you be refreshed by the presence and Spirit of God.

Pastor Patti

P.S. In case you cannot find such a tree, try the one I did. It is located on the church campus. At the west entrance to the church, there is a tree on the edge of the parking lot. Perfect...