I don’t think we’re wired to live every moment in the public eye. At least I’m not.  For the past six weeks I haven’t done much on-line except continue to post the Engage videos that we’ve been taping.  Part of that time included some vacation with the family, but a lot of it allowed me to draw away into the quiet and find my rest in God’s life.  It has been incredible, and has opened a pretty wide door in my heart to things God has spoken to me throughout my life.  He has brought those threads together and presented them to me in a framework that will allow me to write my next book, one I’ve been contemplating for many years.  

I’m going to stay in the quiet for a bit longer, with minimal postings here and certainly not a new podcast every week.  I have not been this excited since I started He Loves Me over 15 years ago.  I will spend most of this fall writing that book and hope to complete the first draft by the end of December.  At least that’s my target.  Only God knows if life will unfold in a way that will let me get that done.  But I am so looking forward to the time with him and putting those thoughts to text in a way that can help others see the reality of the church Jesus is building in the world.  I’m sure more on this will leak out over the next few months.  

This morning  I’m off to Boise, ID for the weekend.  This is the only trip I have planned for this fall, though there are others we’re thinking and praying about.  As I leave this morning, I’ve posted the first God Journey podcast I’ve done in the last six weeks.  It will give you some more details on what the last six weeks have been like, and what seems to be ahead his fall, if you’re interested.   

I am always deeply grateful for all the love and support Sara and I receive as we continue to follow this amazing adventure with so many of you.  Blessings to you as summer comes to an end in the northern hemisphere…. 

Unfortunately when we converted to our new website in March, our feeds for my blog at Lifestream got lost, or were not connected properly.  That has been a nightmare for all of us, especially for those of you lost feeds to the various ways you subscribed to the blog.  I apologize for that and the five months it has taken to get them fixed.  But the good news today is that they are all fixed.   

Now you can subscribe to the Lifestream blog by RSS feed, delivered to your Kindle, by email, or at iTunes when there is audio included.

We have fixed the iTunes feed so all of the Transitions and The Jesus Lens recordings are there, as well as the audio versions of Engage that we have currently released.  When new episodes of Engage are released, it will be included there as well.  These are the best audio/video tools we offer to help people connect with a vibrant relationship to Jesus.  They are, and have always been available free of charge to anyone who wants help in their journey of living in the reality of Jesus:  

We also include audio on the blog when new recordings of Wayne’s are avaiable either when he’s speaking somewhere or appears on someone else’s podcast.  

During my recent sojourn around North Carolina, Tami Rumfelt, a local radio DJ asked me to do an interview for her podcast audience about what it means to live loved, and how we get distracted from doing that by our religious performance.  This interview provides a good overview of my passion to help people discover that God wants to meet us in our brokenness and lead us into the fullness of his life.   You can listen to the interview here.

Tami described the interview on her website this way:  

Does God really love me, even though I am a mess? Am I lovely to Him? How can the God that wiped out humanity in Noah’s time be the same one who “Loved the world so much he sent his only Son to die for us”? How can I have relationship with Jesus when I just can’t believe in my heart that he really likes me?

Have you struggled with these questions? I certainly have. Listen in as Wayne Jacobsen offers his thoughts about “living loved”.