Daily Devotion - Tuesday, April 14

I Need To Listen

This week we are praying through a prayer by Kenneth Phifer entitled, “I Need to Listen.” The theme of Rev. Phifer’s prayer is for God to empower him to be a better listener. Improving our listening, improves our caregiving of others. Here is another part of the prayer.

“Lord, this is a sobbing world.
There are voices filled with echoes of hurt and pain everywhere.
There are voices almost choked out by tears and voices that come out of aching.
There are hollow voices, empty voices.
I would rather not hear them—
the voices of hungry children
and of sorrowing women
and of desperate men.
But they are all around me.
Enable me to hear them, I pray, and in the hearing
Be able to be near my brothers and sisters.”

Have a blessed day as you listen.

--Ben Keckler
04.14.09