August 31, 2022

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1)

Usually, God has to brain us with a two by four to get our attention, but occasionally we can listen to our life and read the tea leaves of His nudging. As Frederick Buechner writes this Listening to Your Life:

“God speaks to us, I would say, much more often than we realize or than we choose to realize. Before the sun sets every evening, he speaks to each of us in an intensely personal and unmistakable way. His message is not written out in starlight, which in the long run would make no difference; rather it is written out for each of us in the humdrum, helter-skelter events of each day; it is a message that in the long run might just make all the difference. Who knows what he will say to me today or to you today or into the midst of what kind of unlikely moment he will choose to say it.”

There is a reason that Jesus is called the Word of God. Know this for sure – He speaks your language.

“O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Wednesday in Easter Week – BCP)