tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215116066445385512.post4148285352510575289..comments2023-07-13T05:20:07.334-04:00Comments on Reflections from Broadneck Baptist: Daddy TimeAbbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04823753643734462481noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215116066445385512.post-65036903770161800752009-10-17T14:57:58.166-04:002009-10-17T14:57:58.166-04:00For me, the type of time you describe is found in ...For me, the type of time you describe is found in two initially very different areas - music making and in our Thursday meditation group. Without either one, I feel strange. I feel a little lost. I feel more tightly wound, but less focused on the things that really (should) matter. These give me engaged time with God as I try to move a little closer (oh, so, so slowly).<br /><br />Even so, I wonder about this idea you've laid out. I would love to be able to let myself be as free with God as you wonderfully describe with the dogs. I've certainly thought about this with my cats! I have no doubt that it can happen sometime with us - I'm certainly not going to put limits on God or how God interacts with his people! But for me, I'm not there. As Philip Yancey says, I'm "reaching for God who is invisible, intangible," and who is incomprehensibly farther removed from me (physically and mentally) than I am from my cats. For me, "Daddy/Mommy time" is hard to understand in this context - and I wish, how I wish I could.<br /><br />That doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying, just that I need to temper my expectations, be patient (ha!), and all that.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03507874062503931824noreply@blogger.com