Saturday, February 20, 2016

Throwback -A Time of Revival

Day 11 Doxology: I apologize for the doxology delay…but I’ve been in a meeting all day and as everyone knows…it’s hard to praise God in lengthy meetings, but God is worthy of our praise!

Tonight’s doxology is kind of a throwback!  It’s a time of remembering and reviving.

The great southerner, and can I add Methodist, Harper Lee died this week.  The joy of sharing “To Kill A Mockingbird” with my daughters made me feel like I was parenting "well"!  Remembering was a time of throwback!

In the book “Go Set A Watchman” it describes a time of Scout’s youth and a time of revival!  In a way…revival is a time of “throwback” for any son or daughter of the south.

When I got home from my marathon Emmaus meeting…J-3 and I were at home alone because my wife is staying with her mom to help care for her declining dad.  J-3 and I were talking with the movie “Horrible Boss 2” hurling profanity in the background when I professed this is uncomfortable for us both…then I asked, “can we watch something else?”  She changed channels and boom, the “Kung Fu Panda” was there on the TV in our living room! 

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Now, the cinematography, “King Fu Panda”, is not new to us….when J-3 was little we would watch it again and again and cackle out loud at the animation.  I absolutely loved the fat panda making it big and my daughter loved that I loved it with her!  Tonight was a throwback of sorts!  It was a great time of sharing laughter with my teenage daughter!

Tonight was a real doxology…A time of revival on many levels.  How can we get back to that which gives us life?  It starts with a doxology moment in the midst of life…it starts by “praising God” with our wife, husbands, moms, dads, sons, daughters, and friends!  It starts by praising God-it’s a time of revival!

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