Which Question?

As I listen to the reassurance of the Holy Spirit I feel happy about the possibilities of making positive changes in the community through the ministries of Saint Joseph. It feels right to be focusing on how we can witness to the power and presence of God in our lives. I feel God encouraging me to "think BIG" as Sid says. I have begun to wonder: which are the questions that will help us move toward a realization of a moment which will be honoring to all that God can do? Which are the Kingdom questions?

Shannon

Think Big

While I have been praying and pondering the options that seem to be before Saint Joseph right now God seems to keep challenging me to think bigger. It doesn't seem that it is bigger as in buildings or numbers but in Kingdom impact. While I'm praying and listening God seems to be inviting me to step farther and farther back from the circumstances that I'm seeing and asking me to consider what potential all of these opportunities have for being apart of God's growing Kingdom. I don't know what all of this means but I have the sense that it means the decisions that we need to be making are not just about us but primarily about how we are going to participate in the Kingdom of God that is breaking in around us.

Sid

Listening

In my devotions today I was reading Psalm 46 and came to that great line, "Be still, and know that I am God." I wonder how you get "still?" Is stillness the absence of noise? As I have been praying about our future, I find myself working to be still. I seem to hear God saying, "Being still and listening are not always the same thing." How are you doing at listening? What are you hearing?