Listen
Years ago when my daughter Holly was very young an event occurred which I cannot forget. I was sitting on a sofa reading a book. It was approaching night time and Holly came into the room dressed in her p.j.’s. She climbed up on the sofa and put her head in my lap and stretched out. I continued to read with the book propped over her small body. As I continued to read, this time aloud hoping she would listen, she looked up and carefully examined my face.
I assumed she had a fixation on my nose because she interrupted me with a question: “Daddy, can you hear through your nose?”
I smiled and answered, “I don’t know. Would you like for me to see?”
“Yes!” she exclaimed.
I put the book down, bent over, and cupped my hand around her nose. I whispered softly, “Holly, I love you.”
She jumped up and with an incredible shout of discovery and joy she shouted, “YOU CAN. You can hear through your nose.”
God often speaks to us in unusual ways. We need to be attentive and give Him careful awareness. He may chose to speak to you through a still small voice, the sound of nature, the words of a friend, a scene from a movie or book, a song, an event in your life, or through Scripture. However He chooses, YOU CAN hear his words. It is up to you to do something with them.
“. . . And having ears, do you not hear? . .” (Mark 8:18)
“. . . let every man be swift to hear . . . “(James 1:19)
Larry Yarborough is the Chaplain for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee in Nashville. He can be reached at lyarborough@ymcamidtn.org and on his profile page here.
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