Lectio Divina
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
Howard Thurman
Listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with me.
Revelation 3
Prayer
God who called
Simon, Peter
You have knit
a singular song
in every soul
Teach me
to listen
Beneath the noise of my ambitions
Beyond the applause and the demand
There is a sound
It is not borrowed
It is not coerced
It is not wound up around the strings of another
It is my own
You have authored it
May I not live as a marionette
on the strings of a puppet master
reacting to every stimuli
of technology and subculture
Anchor me
in the sound of the genuine,
that quiet place
where you and I
are most alive
Blessing
Dear Friend
May you be still enough to listen
to what the great Howard Thurman
called the sound of the genuine.
May you be still enough to remember
you are not mere flesh and blood
you have been fearfully authored by the Divine.
May you trust the indwelling Spirit.
In the Name of Christ in You,
the Hope of Glory.
Amen
This is beautiful Mike! I will be sharing with my students as well. Thank you!!