A Personal Progression, One Both Purposeful and Providential.

I am not attempting alliteration for alliteration's sake alone, it's just that this God that presides within me, yet fully inhabits the billions of galaxies is becoming so personal in the season of my life.

All my seasons now seem purposeful, and definitely progressive!

Perhaps personal preparation for this extremely intense digital shift we are now experiencing? One that wows me each morning, maximizing our access to knowledge.

Spiritual stability becomes more important than ever given the political powerplays so evident in this tiny blue dot we call home.

Born into a Pentecostal movement that began in the early 1900's, I have seen too much of the power of God to ever doubt providence.

However, stubborn in my tendencies toward exploration, I early on wandered far from the guardrails of my denominational moorings. By my college years, quite distance from the guard rails of my birth family.

Raised by a blue collar, brick mason dad with four kids and a big heart for others, I learned to work hard putting "bricks in the wall".

Given that take home pay was built upon one brick at a time, speed and skill were also key, the perfect breeding ground for impatience, and I was adequately inoculated (still evident at times with typos)!

With little preparation other than somehow being assigned to classrooms with brilliant others, all more white collar than myself, I was exposed to their parent expectations, all assuming college as a next step.

I later arrived on campus with little understanding of "major, minor" curricular choices, and in my well-earned impatience, simply got in the shortest line in the gym.

Before I knew it, though I had always loved the outdoors, roaming the woods with my "hunter gatherer" coon dog raising uncles & cousins, I was studying biology, chemistry, physics!

That now even seems providential preparation for this intense senior season?

My understanding of the faith is well grounded after fifty plus years in the scriptures, exposure to multiple denominations, yet now its "exam time" with my faith.

While all this deep thought this morning?

I'm reading through Leviticus, utilizing my understanding of physiology, my sixty years as an educator, somehow fully grasping the trajectory that takes us from primitive law and "medicine" yet toward the gospels.

All then clearly supported by the writer of Hebrews' with the necessity of a schoolmaster in preparationfor a "better Priesthood.

I can't escape the mystery of the text given the time proven seasons of my life!

More to come as I compose my thoughts each day, hopefully leaving a behind a gift for the "next" and particularly my grandchildren as they walk into a much more complex world, a long charted, progressive venture with the "I Am"!