Clay in the Hands

I am packing up this morning to head back home.  I took three days of vacation to escort my wife to Houston for a conference.  It has given us time to be together – just the two of us and I thought it would give me some down time to catch up on some reading and to spend some time in prayer.

Unfortunately, one afternoon of “downtime” hardly seems enough.  But it was good to be able to unplug even for an afternoon.

Now I start the 11 hour drive home – alone.  Yeah!

At any rate, I wanted to share with you an experience I had yesterday in my reading and prayer time.  As I sat and prayed and read, I was hoping for a revelation from God – an answer to my prayer.

Have you ever had the experience of feeling like your prayers go unheard?  That maybe your prayers are bouncing off the ceiling?

I read this quote and it reminded me of something.  I am reading through Ben Johnson’s book, Time Away, and in the book he quotes John of the Cross.  The quote is this, “Silence is God’s first language.”  Ben goes on to elaborate on this quote by saying that if we are going to hear God, we first “must learn to turn down the noise in our lives.”

In other words, we must learn to become comfortable sitting in silence before God.  It is in resting in God that we experience peace – and that just might be the answer we are looking for.

Be blessed today!