God speaks

Everyone one is really God speaking

Why not be polite and listen

to the Old Guy?     Hafiz

Therefore, consider how you listen.   

                              Jesus

I am sure you spoke today Lord

I think you spoke through the tamaracks 

shining golden in a fall forest

I am sure you spoke as the sun poked 

through the gray clouds

making faces in the sky

I am sure you spoke through that little girl, 

skipping through the store in the mall (made a trip to the big city of Lewiston today)

 

You spoke to through that clerk

who did more than just take my money

but smiled

and put energy and warmth in to my day

 

You spoke to through a passage I read in the Bible

that confused, and then challenged

 

And you spoke in that moment when I realized

that I had been very very wrong

that I had acted out of weakness and need

and not fullness

 

You speak so often God

You challenge and confront

You tell me about costly things

And wonderful things

You comfort and guide

and encourage

 

and I?

sometimes I listen

sometimes I don't

I fear I have selective hearing God

(I am told by my family this might be so :)

 

Help me God 

not just to listen

but to hear

 

I wonder what a spiritual hearing aid looks like?