Now what?

I have enjoyed reading all of your responses to the previous post ("Surgeries, the church, and please share") . If you haven't already done so, please read and feel free to comment. There's a great dialog going on.

I think if I could sum up my reaction, and God's leading as I read the responses and looked at other blogs, it would be two words, well actually three, :), the Holy Spirit.

Everywhere I turned in the past few days, have been blogs, newsletters, or devotionals about the Holy Spirit. I think the Lord's trying to tell me something.! What exactly I don't know. I know the role of the Holy Spirit is vital to a Christian's growth, and to the church's health. I believe the Holy Spirit is still very active in the world today.

Some places that I have been blessed this week included the following posts:
http://destinationgloryland.blogspot.com/
(see post: "tested by fire")


http://stf.heavenlytrain.com/
(see posts: "barriers" and "underlined by God")
and the newsletter that she references:

http://www.lutheranrenewal.org/
(click on publications, and then Oct 2006 newsletter)

and
http://windowstomysoul.blogspot.com/
(see post: "Verify your spiritual life")

and

http://lrlwreath.blogspot.com/
(see post: "Let your fire burn")

I encourage you to take a moment to browse thru these helpful posts. And also feel free to comment on the role of the Holy Spirit in today's churches.
But I want to leave you with one more post that I think sums up our feeling of spiritual wasteland here in the United States. Although originally written in and about another country, I felt encouraged, because where there are prayer warriors there is hope. Here in the U.S. are we being faithful too?

http://stf.heavenlytrain.com/
(see post "room with a view").