After praying for some months about teaching a Bible class somewhere, I prayed on it through last night. I asked the Lord to show me what to do just as I was drifting off to sleep and prayed about it each time I awoke during the night (I’m old; this is often). I released any selfish or prideful claim as a teacher, prayed for the learners, and prayed that it be only to God’s glory.
I awoke in the early morning hours with the whole thing clear in my mind. I started www.wordwalk.org.
Today my long-awaited copy of Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy arrived. Michael Polanyi was, among other things, a physical chemist, the field in which I got my chemistry degree. The book describes his brilliant thinking on the subject I am most studying these days: the crucial place of myth and imagination in comprehending important concepts.
How can I have been a Christian for fifty-one years and never have noticed that the last sentence in Philippians 4:5 is the key to all of Philippians 4:6-7?