[Discoveries] 06-30-07 A gentle whisper

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*For God does speak -- now one way, now another -- though man may not 
perceive it. -- Job 33:14*/

Why doesn't God speak in bold type? Why do we need to look in the fine 
print of our lives to find Him?

I am reminded of my grandmother. She was less than five feet tall. When 
guests arrived she had enormous talent for moving them to center stage 
and disappearing almost entirely herself. She was there only to serve, 
to place a tray of food before them, to speak a quiet word of kindness 
and then to fade back into the background.

If you didn't know her, you would miss her. Others would dominate and 
she would be misplaced in the noise of their presence. But to know her 
was to be drawn to her, to overlook all the glitter of the party and to 
find one plain woman who knew the law of kindness.

I guess I had a special relationship with my grandma. Even at the end of 
her life (she lived to be 102), after two strokes had robbed her almost 
of life itself, she still talked to me, even when she had stopped 
talking to nearly everyone else.

I sense it is this way with God. He chooses to be unobtrusive, almost 
always in the background. We can be swept away by the noise of life, and 
He watches quietly, waiting to see if we will listen to His gentle whisper.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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