Can You Hear Me Now?
Devotional Reflections on prayer, with thanks to Verizon Wireless
“How long, O Lord?
Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?”
--An ancient Hebrew song (Psalm 13:1)
NOTE: You may remember the Verizon Wireless commercial with the young man walking into all sorts of places to check on the “power supply” for communicating with “the person” on the other end of the line. The rest of this week we dare to explore that question as we look at another wireless connection.
A few years ago I developed a presentation, “Tell Me Your Heart Song”, I included one of my favorite stories about prayer. It is a story about Dan Rather interviewing Mother Teresa. My paraphrase follows:
Rather: “So what do you say when you pray to God?”
Mother Teresa: “Nothing, I just listen.”
Struggling quickly to come up with the next question, probably believing that the answer would be longer,
Rather: “Well, what does God say to you?”
Mother Teresa: “Nothing. He just listens too!”
The Psalmist was feeling silence from the Divine and could keep quiet no longer. The three quick questions that begin this devotional seem to cry out, “Can you hear me now?”
Sometimes prayer is like that.
--Ben Keckler
01.18.11
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