Well, the last chore of fall clean-up got finished yesterday. My 2nd oldest grandson came out and we bagged all of the fall leaves. Raking them is one thing easy for one to do. But, bagging them is so much better done by two and waiting for my helper to come was well worth it. Not only is he a great help, he is just a great young man. He’s my barber now so it is fun to hear his barbering stories as we work.

God has been awakening me to my need to come to Him daily understanding that if I’m to truly worship Him I need to do so in spirit and truth. I’ve always loved worship for it awakens my own spirit which has seemed dormant as I have lived much of life. But, most recently I’m being brought into the Light of God’s Spirit.

Yesterday, as I was doing the lesson for my Saturday morning group, the focus is on spiritual warfare. The previous lessons have been on Worship in spirit and truth and let this experience take root in routine practice. Now, moving on to spiritual warfare, I become fully awakened to the truth that Satan is spirit too. These things I’ve known most of my life but not had them confronted as this curriculum does so well. This is called spiritual warfare because it is spirit. Christ defected Satan’s plan in His Spirit and He wants us to be very aware of our own spirit and our need to address the evil attacks of our flesh with our spirit surrendered to His Holy Spirit Who is God’s Holy Spirit given to us. There is a huge difference between knowing this and experiencing it. I’m finally into the experiencing side. It is AMAZING! It is an entirely different thing to move from knowing into experiencing. Good experiences grow healthy habits and that is what we want to do.