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Sunday, April 13, 2025

LISTENING

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"Speak Lord, Your servant is LISTENING!"
1 Samuel 3:9-10

This image actually could have been one from me, 
here this week, out in my 7 and a half acres of pine trees,
gazing up and allowing the Son (sun)
to shine and filter through the other "noises" around -
mostly in nature as I take pause & reflect
as I truly tried to focus on

LISTENING

- but the image is not mine

nor does it seem to be so easy to pause & reflect

and truly 

LISTEN

to hear God speak

to listen to others

or to block out

all the noise(s)

stealing our attention

waking us at all hours

alerting us to take time

and

really LISTEN to God

for God

what is He speaking to us

individually and collectively

I am desperately trying to just hear

GOD

and so I've been really

LISTENING

searching for any

WORD

from God

Hoping to discern well

to hear His Whisper

above my fear

above the clamor

above my own thoughts

above what others are blasting so loudly

Oh Lord, how I wish to block out the evil and all that's happening

in our world, in our nation, in my personal sphere

in me

Yes, Lord

"I am Your servant

and I am

LISTENING"

SPEAK LORD

{this has been consuming me all week, perhaps too much}

So I write and wait for Your Holy Spirit

to enlighten me & help me to

HEAR as I LISTEN

and

READ

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Daily Scriptural Reading plan for April 7-13, this past week from

The 📘

{it's an actual Blue Book by Jim Branch}

11. LISTENING to God 

Psalm 19 

Monday: Isaiah 55:1-3 
Tuesday: John 10:1-18 
 Wednesday: Genesis 28:10-22 
 Thursday: Genesis 32:22-32 
 Friday: Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 
 Saturday: 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 
 Sunday: Luke 10:38-42

I had hope to write my own poem

but this

LISTENING POEM

is so much more than I could write

because it encompasses so much more 

I believe this is what God might like us to do also

"Today I Will Listen"
by Marva Shand McIntosh

IF ONLY

we would LISTEN this way

I do believe that God does!

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PALM SONday

{and what would be my brother's 76th birthday}

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So much passing through my mind

my heart

but

Lord, I am LISTENING 

please speak

and

help me

HEAR

"I am becoming more & more convinced 
that
LISTENING to God
is one of the most important practices 
in all of the spiritual life. ..."
Jim Branch (April 2016)

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I am asking Lord

"for a LISTENING heart"

Thank You

always

for

LISTENING 

to my many thoughts


ramblings!


1 comment:

  1. Such a beautiful and serene image ! I echo your thoughts and feelings on this past week. Listening….and that poem! So convicting yet so true as we “attempt “ to listen and do what our Lord would do….i fail miserably and daily 🥺

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