LISTENING FOR GOD
If we cannot actually use our ears to listen to God, what, besides just clearing our minds in quiet and sensing God’s presence, could we do? Trying to clear my mind is so often so hard to do in the mad world we live in. Well, we have five senses, hearing, seeing, feeling, taste and smell.
Use our eyes. This morning at my computer I look out my window and see the clear, blue sky, and the rugged bark on the pines, people going by, my neighbor’s home, and a pair of large birds circling and I can wonder and thank Him for all this. From my chair upstairs a humming bird comes to the feeder. Did you ever marvel at that small animal? God made that too.
I hear the washing machine being loaded and started and running. Allows me to thank Her for Kaye, who cared for me when sick.
I still taste the two eggs, toast and juice from breakfast. Do you savor your food, or drink, and feel His presence in each swallow? And commune with Him about the wonders there?
I smelled the coffee earlier. What a wonder and the people that made it possible for me to put a few scoops of coffee and a cup of water in the machine, and enjoy quietly waking up.
And as I write this, or type it really, I feel the keyboard keys and the mouse. What great gifts we have from those people, God’s children, who used His enlightenment to imagine and create such wonders as power lines, phones, computers, smart phones, and beautiful color monitors.
Truly we are surrounded by wonders; we only have to pause and consider the source of all, the mind of God transmitted into our minds to commune with God.
Perry White
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