June 15, 2007

God Listening “Morning Medication” by Mary Jane Davis

Psalm 45:10 “Listen, O daughter, consider and incline your ear.”

           “Seek quiet time on the gray days. Force discipline and obedience until the answer comes, because it will.”

            I read that at a glance this morning from an opened book lying on my desk. I didn’t like it much but there it was, so I figured I’d better pay attention and do some God listening.

            Discipline and obedience are a little itchy like wool in summer. Yet to be honest, I know that I needed that exact reading today, though I’d rather just plant my half price flowers I bought yesterday, rather not think about the area of lax disobedience nagging at me.

            I’d rather be footloose and fancy free, yet always there is the call to go deeper, look closer, listen more astutely, care when I don’t feel like caring.

            I hear the little voice; there is room for both, the carefree and the discipline.

            I have shown up for work. I will pay attention. I will listen. I will seek the quiet as I dig, plant and water.