- There’s a quote about this from a book I keeps coming to mind, and so Chatgpt helped me create a RULES page. <Click Here>
- if you’re smiling then I know you clicked it… and that’s all good, now then
- I don’t know if I need to do this, what I’m telling you now, that Chatgpt hasn’t heard about this conversation with you… so its 100% from my heart, but also there’s the fact that the Holy Spirit is also here, “where two or more are gathered in my name…”
- But God has, and we’ve sorted it out.
- This is a public page you can send to anyone who asks, “whatta ya guys been talking about?”
- I trust you, I feel safe with you, because I trust God, we are in his hands
I went to bed really early last night.
I’ve been praying for you.
And that feeling to come alongside and fix was there! Beckoning to me! 
I looked to my own life and how overwhelmed by it I am.
Prayer for me, sometimes, is taking my thoughts out of my head like books I’ve been carrying around, and putting them on a private bookshelf. Last night, I was so tired, even if I wanted to do all the things that need to be done around me, (and even the things that don’t need to be done by me ever! )
I didn’t have the energy to even care about them, whether they’d be done or not. That’s what you call given it all to God!
There’s two images there: the bookshelf with those special books, and all those Sheds and Arts (shoulds and oughts)
So I went to bed.
When I woke up early this morning 2:37 am 😅 I fooled myself ‘til 3:48 am and then I came down here to do those things you do (coffee & Buckley’s!)
but somehow I knew the one thing,
I knew this one thing!
That it’s been a long time since I wrote my Bible out!
Today it’s February 13, 2026.
😑 yes, I did ask ChatGPT! I’ve been giving it a lot of heavy stuff lately! LOL! So I asked it!
The longer I persist in this discipline, the more it amazes me! It is an amazing thing! A mysterious thing! Bonhoeffer calls it, honouring his word! I found myself arguing with it as soon as I saw it written on the pages in his book, “Life Together” but let’s translate that into a thought that came into my mind…
“ so I’m just supposed to read the word and not worry about understanding it? Just read the word of God, without trying to understand it!”
Laurence
That’s from out of my heart, so don’t go trying to find it as a quote anywhere, laugh out loud!
Go ahead! Accept that thought! Assimilated into how you do things, unquestioned, just because I said so! But if it’s too precious a thing to do, go ahead look at it, Argue, open your journal to a Fresh page, at the top of the page address your note to me in which every way you feel you need to, for example;
Hey jerk!
Hey buddy,
Dear Laurence,
…if you need more examples, please consult the back of your book lol
And either kindly, or not so kindly, humbly or arrogant and pompous, tell me often & prove me wrong!
Just don’t pat me on the head, and continue reading, seeing if I have anything relevant to say.
(I like writing in my blog here because it’s pretty much a live document! I can come back and change something that I want to add later! Like the citation for what I’ve just mentioned above)
I always put the date in the upper corner of a page whenever I do writing in my Bible journal,
That’s me a few minutes ago. The silver pen, is the “blue ink” for the bulk of the text, black is for titles, red is for chapter numbers, the white out is for the stfu, and the far blue pen is for the dates.
But before I move along here…
I wanna remind you that I have been praying for you.
I sent you that song where there is faith – over there with you and Brian – to see.
Please listen to that song
Just like you became so overwhelmed listening to that song by George Strait.
I pray that you will be overwhelmed by God‘s great love! As you his take his hand, trusting in him, running into his arms! Note the rules at the outset of this page! Its not my hand, they aren’t my arms!
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Ephesians 5:21
- note that for you, I will not add a link to jump to the Bible website… you’ve got a well worn, well thumbed bible there… I know its where you go, one of your safe places to go! Just like me.
- but if you’re running low on supplies, I have a tonne of bibles, and pens, and empty journals LOL
There’s a man named Richard Foster, who wrote a book about prayer, gave me permission to use my imagination when praying! It was like, looking right and left, “how dare you suppose that I used or ever would use my imagination when praying to God…” oh, Richard does it… hey, that looks like how I do it… hey… I’ll just blame him if I get caught LOL – I wish I was joking…
Later, much later, my own daughter helped me to understand that its part of how my brain is wired. I think in images. See <here>
Because after reading that book I realized – about my prayer practices – that I’ve been doing that! Because I don’t care if its Right Or Wrong! I’ve got very little time for SHOULDS and OUGHTS right now, Afterall, I was safe in my prayer closet! Like how he says, we can use our imagination! I’ve come out of the closet! hahahahaha
And that’s what I do in overwhelming situations like this right now!
My question is God what are you gonna do about KERRY!
I run across a big open field, with rolling Hills I’m trying not to stumble as I run, and I get to these big doors and I bang on the doors and someone leans out to ask, “HALT! Who GOES there!?!” and I say, “…it’s Laurence, I’ve come to see the king!” and a firm, gentle voice affirms from inside, it’s Jesus’ voice, that I hear from inside, down the hall saying;
I know him let him in!
So I run past the guards, past everyone, through another set of really big doors and then right across the room… and there’s God so much larger than me, sitting on his throne, and his robes are flowing all around him, I don’t strain to look and see if I can see his face, I know its him, and I just dive into those robes and grab on and begin to weep and weep and weep and that same kind of prayer that we see in
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. Romans 8:26-27
- But the spirit Himself intercedes for us!
God Bless you today… as iron sharpens iron…
If you find yourself wanting to linger a little longer, you may wish to spend time Entering the Quiet Place of Prayer, to hear again the gentle invitation to Come, Run Toward Grace, to rediscover what it means to be Keeping Company with God, and perhaps most deeply, to learn what it is to be Resting in the Heart of Abba.
Running Down Vimy 