Documenting What God is Up To

Have you listened to Episode 1027: Journaling our History with God with Pastor Kevin Queen on That Sounds Fun yet? Pastor of the pod, Kevin Queen is helping us think through the practice of journaling. As we start these 18 months of talking about how to get spiritually stronger, what if we document it all the way through?

“Make the time for it. Make a record of it.”

-Pastor Kevin Queen

I just got the sweetest text message from a friend, thanking me for a meal I sent to their family a year ago. A YEAR AGO. How did she even remember that? How in the world did that one meal pop back up in her mind and what kind of literal saint sends a text message a year later? (After she thanked me the day the meal was delivered!)

(May I give you one of life’s best tips for sending people food or taking them food? Don’t ask them what they want. Just go for it. If there’s a tragedy or grief or surgery or a brand new baby—whatever the situation is that has you signing up for a meal train—take one decision off your friend’s brain and just take them chicken tender salads with honey mustard dressing or Mexican food. Can’t lose.)

Pastor Kevin and I talked a bit about this in the episode, but one of the best things about journaling is having a record of what we can be thankful for. Somehow my friend has a record of who brought them food and what they brought and in reviewing that today, she shot off a text that blessed me so much.

I’m not sure I’ve ever looked back in my journal in such a way it caused me to send a gratitude text to someone. I’m going to do that today, I promise! I’ll send at least one text from something I read in an old journal that I picked up.

But what journaling has done for me is allow me to see moments that I can thank God for anew every time I read them on a page.