SUPER SUNDAY #13 ~ IN THE SECRET ~

IN THE SECRET ~ a new song I just came across and then I discovered the Secret Place that I shared last Super Sunday ... Welcome to the 13th Super Sunday of 2011 ... this is not a new meme, I just started it up again after a rest... I had started this in the Spring of 2008, brought it back in the fall... and here we are trying it out again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyV2WyRe-T8
Sharon, from Bible Pick 'ems and Sharon Sharing God, recently shared in her ever so wonderful Friday feature, FAN THE FLAME, the word "silence" ... to ponder with ?s and to fan our flame.
Since this was during my "40 DAYS AWAY 2 PRAY", I responded in a prayer ... as I forewarned y'all ... and she wrote in her response (that she makes a point of doing every blog she writes, but I don't do here ... yet I'm considering now) ... "that she hopes I will share this" prayer ... and as I thought about it and read the prayer again (which I don't like doing - reading my own stuff again) ... this song welled up inside of me ... and so I am sharing that song and my prayer here ... but it will make more sense if you go there and read her blog post of this "Fan the Flame" in particular and the responses (but in particular the two that preceded mine) Geezhh, now that sure was a wordy for an intro explanation - ya' might also like the song for my high school days  that I linked here in my prayer:

Heavenly Father... You know me so well and so does Sharon (almost?)(lol). (this was because Sharon is the only one participating & sharing her answers with me in "Breaking Free" and discovering all my secrets) 

I am so uncomfortable with SILENCE! 

Yet Lord, there have been moments of silence that I completely treasure. I love Father how You speak/spoke through Your daughters, Sharon in her blogs this week and even in the comments of Debbie and Betty above and others throughout this week. We so need one another. I caught the word "rambling" in Debbie's comment Lord, and it made me think that I ramble because I am so uncomfortable with the "silence" (probably even in my prayers, though many are silent, many are out loud and LOUD, some soft). 

However, the most devastating silence is from You! I believe that You allow silence for a reason. Many times I wonder about the silence and feel (there's that word again - "feel") that my prayers or words are bouncing off the ceiling... 

I was given this word from a dear sister, before my 40 days of prayer began, "Be still". In my time of "being still", I wait for You. I wait expectantly to hear You. And then many times, I hear only the silence but realize that THAT too is You speaking. I think for me, You have the purpose of teaching me "to wait", "to soak", to learn patience, calmness and to rest in the valleys of repose. I have difficulty with this, and You know and have seen how I fail to stop and unwind. Empty my thoughts just to hear Yours.
I'm not sure why Lord, but when You are silent, I desire to focus on You but I feel (again that same word) that You have rejected me, turned Your back on me, yes, Lord, forsaken me... even though I know Your Word tells me You won't, I am left with this "feeling". I run to Your Word. I run to some music that ministers Your love... and like a child I feel empty handed especially if I do not sense Your Presence. This causes me to examine my life, to look if there be any sin in me and this too can be a purpose. To rid myself of me.
Thank You for this reminder. Thank You for speaking in the silence. Thank You for breaking through the silence. Thank You for the joys in the silence. Thank You for the sorrows in the silence. Be quick to speak when I am lonely and feeling desolate, because this is how I know I need to break free from the spirit of rejection.
This constant need of seeking to please others when I should only seek to please You. 
I cannot help Lord but remember a song from my high school days... we studied this and I guess this is what silence brings to mind... crying out... Lord, hear my heart not my words. I love You. I love my sisters in Christ that hear from You. 
I thank You for Sharon and her wisdom and deep thoughts. I thank You for being with Sharon this day to defend her and encourage her. Thank You that Sharon accepts me as I am and allows me to ramble... even in a prayer. May I learn to wait and trust. I believe that part of the silence not only is the wait and the chance for fruit to grow like patience but also to PREPARE US. Yes, Lord, prepare the way. Speak or be silent but never leave us.
May You be glorified in the silence! May I come to be comfortable in the silence. May I realize the gift of silence. I thank You Lord, for the gifts of hearing, sight, and speaking. I lift up the many who have never heard, never seen or never been able to speak, that they find comfort and peace in their lack, but how this causes me to value my senses so much more. Thank You Lord!
Bless each one of these people and my sisters and brothers in Christ today and this weekend with a sweet sense of Your presence in the silence or in the noise, may we HEAR You!

LISTENING...  RESTING... "IN THE SECRET"... in my beautiful new Secret Place 

... Isn't the Son so glorious and beautiful on Sunday or any day?...
Take a break and BE STILL with Him today

Enjoy
SUPER SON Sunday 

  share a scene, song or scripture 

(or any combination)
just keep it simple! 

During this week, with SILENCE in my Secret Place and learning to listen in the SILENCE, I read this  insightful blog post "WHEN GOD IS SILENT" by author, Cherie Hill, with three wise points of God's Silence. (I'm still hoping and waiting to buy either of her books: "Be Still: Let Jesus Calm Your Storms" and "Beginning at The End: Finding God When Your World Falls Apart", leaning to the first one now although the second one is what drew me to her).