LISTEN MORE, TALK LESS
This poster is in the choir room at All Saints’. Certainly, it is an appropriate reminder as the choir works to sing the music. It is important for us to listen to one another, in order to blend and truly make a joyful sound. Talking drains our energy and sucks the life out of our practice time. For me, listening IS an art . . . something to be practiced and worked on daily. Margaret Shepard touched on listening in her sermon to us when she was here. She said, ”Listen for the call.” Listen for “the call,” not just in church but out there in the world where we live. If I am always talking, I hear nothing!
At the Martin Luther King celebration in Manteo, the question was posed, “What am I called to do to further justice and equality in our very unjust and racially divided community?” Perhaps, I could listen more. Although, maybe I should actually DO something.
Daily I ask myself, “What am I called to?” Some of what I am called to is to dream. I believe God speaks through our dreams. I believe the world could be a better place if we listened to our dreams... and brought the unconscious to consciousness. Wake up! Turn off the TV and the computer and the “smart” phone and the “dumb” phone and tune into the quantum field or God or your higher power – whatever you call the creator of the universe and listen to what's humming on the spiritual highways and byways. Listen for “the call!”
Pat Wilson
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