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Finding

Here you sit ready to worship.  You are here to worship a God who loves you, who saved you, and who is Spirit.  We can’t see Him.  Sometimes we ‘feel’ Him, and sometimes we don’t.  So, how do we FIND Him?  How do we know what He wants?  How do we know what He is saying?  What moves us to love and worship Him?

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Fruit Bats

Hide and Go Seek. I know you have all played this game at least once in your life. If not, tell Peter and Mark you want to play after church. Hide and Go Seek is a childhood game. Everyone hides while one person counts to 100. The first person found is “it” next round. Simple. Fun. Exciting.
    

Now think of the best Hide and Go Seek player you know.
What makes this person so good? Is it because they are fast? Small? Creative?
    

Now think of the worst player you know.
What makes them so bad? Is the person loud? Slow?

I was trying to answer the same questions about the best and worst players, and I struggled with my answers. I was trying to think about which of my friends would be best, and each of them has qualities that make them good or bad. Then I thought of God.
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Moments of Joy

It was late on a warm summer night.  The Milky Way was stretched all across the dark Wisconsin sky.  The canoe I was in bobbed lightly on the water.  Tall trees surrounded the lake and were silhouetted against the soft moonlight.  The night breezes carried the hoots of owls, the calls of wolves, and the croaks of frogs.  Fireflies danced and burned everywhere.  The smells of pine, water, and night formed a perfume that man could not make.

In the boat with me was my best friend Brad.  Our laughing and talking had stopped about an hour ago.  Those things were exchanged for the awe of the night.  Even though we were only 14 years old we could sense the grandeur of the moment and our surroundings.  In many ways that night was the first night of my life, the first night of both of our lives.  It was the first occasion I remember being conscious of something bigger than me.

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- fear -

dear fathom family: i am afraid of a lot of things. i have many fears.

i afraid of jumping from high places. cliff-diving: not fun to me.

i fear jalapenos.

i am afraid of failing.

small yappy dogs that bite scare the tar out of me.

i am afraid that there was a wnf devo on ‘fear’ just a few months ago.

i am afraid of being the same person in five years that i am today.

i fear not being liked.

i am scared to be somewhere that has weird food and un-acceptable toilet facilities.

i am afraid of letting my yard be un-kept and letting it look like poo.

i am afraid of dreaming too small.

i fear going to a restaurant by myself and being that guy that takes up a whole table for himself.

scary moves actually scare me.

i am afraid of being afraid.

we all have fears of this or that. some of them are silly – some of them are life & death serious to us.

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