Aloof and Silence: Notes to Chatterboxes Everywhere!🙂

“Stop talking!”

”Don’t talk over me!

We feel so often, so many minutes, so many hours, so many days of our existence like we are not,

Heard.

One glorious day.

We figure it out.

Finally.

We first must ask for forgiveness for the countless times and hours we felt compelled to prove ourselves

Right—That we are right. You are wrong? That I am right and you are wrong?

Ugh.

I am sorry.

The problem and problemo is the world moves at a deafening pace. Blink and we miss the important lesson of the day. The minute we took our first breath, He held our hand in faith and love.✌🏻

Simply. In return, He asked us time and again to

Listen.

To His words.

To His lessons.

Not once. Not once, Has he exercised to coerce us into following Him. To those who discovered that along all the paths of their lives, the easy paths and the difficult ones, the believers held steadfast that He simply

Makes Sense.

Common Sense.

Love your neighbor as your self-sense.

Before it is too late.

For what?

To do so.

When we finally get out of our own way, we realize trust and love very strongly and steadfastly has been building under our feet. Holding us up. When we

Walk the walk.

And not necessarily,

Talk the talk.☺️

Faith and love has been radiating through our hearts and minds like a silent fire burning.

Ouch!

There are days, too many for some, wherein we feel we are always walking on hot coals to prove our point. We resort to yelling screaming, slammed doors and in nowaday standards—humdingers of anger in messages sent with an angry hand.✋ 📲

We forget.

How to behave in His presence. Which really is a shame, because He is always present. We cry out in a momentary pain.

He rescues us.

From ourselves. Reminds us that we are here on this earth to serve others. The best way possible. Be it for hours of sewing and creating. Be it for open expressions of service. 🎚️

Be it.

In expressing thanks to the community service and law and order officers who risk their lives every day to restore a kind of order wherein He can be heard and not always lamented against.😤. We call for help. And then, foolishly, we do not listen. He has been teaching us time and again,

He is peace.

He wants peace.

He wants rest.

For all.

He has, indeed commissioned a few brave souls for this duty. It is imperative the rest of us, in whatever capable way we can, to support this.

What may result?

A peace that passes understanding.

A realization that we are all on this earth to make it a better place. Not a “get out of my way” kind of existence. We all need a refresher ours in all things He is:

Good.

How? Does he teach us to pray?

He knows: Prayer is the heartbeat of worship (dd).

He wants us to hear above all the noise and sit with Him. Alone. Together in our beliefs for betterment for all mankind. Yes. It is a super lofty goal He has for us. The least, the least, we can do is step up to the plate.

Give it a swing.

If we miss. We miss.

Who knows.

We may just hit it out of the park.🙂

In the meantime, when we open our eyes, we must realize we have been given a new day.(AA).

A new day.

To do our best.

He gives us countless and inescapable ways to behave toward our fellow man.

He knows a faker. He knows an opportunist when He sees within our souls. He asks the strong ones to take it a step further. Test the waters. After, of course, a bit more walking across the hot coals.

Ouch.

Why?

He tests us in ways large and small. He wants us to grow in His love. We falter, we exhaust. He picks us up any which way but loose.

Huh?

He holds on to us tightly. But, not suffocating ly. He allows us air to breathe, love to share and another breath to live another day of service, hope and regard.

All this with the loving aloofness and

Silence.

Chatterboxes beware? More like, chatterboxes, take a break. He is with you. You do not always have to prove your “rightness.”

He alone can correct our mistakes.

Man plans. God laughs.

Yep.

We, and our bag of chips crunch desperately into the nighttime to block out the noise of our own mass destruction. We feel helpless and hopeless at the same time tested beyond measure. Our feet ache because of the burns of our never ending conscience telling us we are bad. Pace is pace for a reason. He alone sets our pace.

We are not bad.

Flawed, yes.

We are not bad.

But! We can all be better!

Yes we can.

Throw aside the pre-conceived notions, the judgments, the weakening spiritual critical ness we choose when instead we are implored to just be

Silent.

Quiet in His goodness.

Silent.

Prepare the way to strengthen our souls.

As He expects us to do. In His presence. Not in His presence. Every New Day. Every new minute.

Yes. He is a busy guy. But. Never too busy to sit along side you, take your hand and pray with you in gargantuan ways of love and care.

What is it about the silence?

Well. It can be a two-edged sword.

It forces us to think and it forces us to think.

About our faults, failings, misgivings.

AND!

Our wondrous abilities to extend a hand of grace to someone or something we are not sure we want to extend to.?…..

Silence.

He says, “Try.” “I am with you always.” You will never fall flat on your face with Me around.” Believe in Me because I believe in you.” He says.

Trust + Faith+ Love= A whole person. A whole person ready, willing and able to turn the other cheek. As is One of His great lessons. When we forgive, we are selfish, we are freeing ourselves. The good news when we forgive—it gives us His God-given ability to forge on and give the best of ourselves to others.

The best of ourselves to others.

Stand strong.

Stand with the strong.

The fact is, they may be a little frightened too.

So. Show them, without words, what strength can look like. What strength really is in His eyes. The deafening silence will be filled with a joy never felt before.

Actions can speak louder than words.

Chatterboxes beware of His great and many ways to penetrate our souls with the goodness of God!

In silence.

It feels great and wondrous!

A New Day!