Prayer: Take Time to ListenThe entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. I opened my mouth and panted, for I longed for Your
commandments.
-Psalm 119:130-131The Quakers had many fine ideas about life, and there is a story from them that illustrates the point I am trying to make. It concerns a conversation between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a Quaker woman he had met. Maybe Coleridge was boasting a bit, but he told the woman how he had arranged the use of time so he would have no wasted hours.
He said he memorized Greek while dressing and during breakfast. He went on with his list of other mental activities--making notes, reading, writing, formulating thoughts and ideas--until bedtime.The Quaker listened unimpressed. When Coleridge was finished with his explanation, she asked him a simple, searching question: "My friend, when dost thee think?"God is having a difficult time getting through to us because we are a fast-paced generation. We seem to have no time for contemplation.
We have no time to answer God when He calls.
Jesus, Author of our Faith, p. 46"Thank You, Lord, that You convicted me some time ago about this
need for time to think, of the need for solitude and silence. Make
this increasingly possible for me, but also for many of my brothers
and sisters who have not discovered the value of this slowing down.
Amen."
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