This was the blog of one of the guys today on Fireflyfans. He puts it a lot better than I ever could.
Today God put the world on hold for me.
That's right, He told everyone else to wait.
He set down everything He was doing.
He did not put me on call waiting.
He didn't look at his caller ID and hope I would just leave a message.
He didn't ask if he could call me after the game was over or at the next commercial.
He didn't stomp His foot and say, "I should have left my IM set on Busy or Away."
He
did not try to see if He could "squeeze me in somewhere" or have His
secretary make some lame excuse, or ask if we could reschedule.
He did not say, "Let me finish this up & I'll be right there."
No, He did none of those things.
God
stopped. He closed His appointment book. He didn't try to finish a few
last things on his desk while we talked. Instead He got up from his
desk, and came around to me. He reached His gentle and strong hand to
me, smiled, said, "Would you like to go for a walk? or maybe an Ice
cream cone? I've got all day just for you."
He never said, "Let's
talk on the go." But He said, "Here's a nice quiet peaceful place,
let's sit here & talk. "And while we talked he looked me in the eye.
He didn't snack while I was talking. He did not give me obligatory nods
or say, "Hmmm" or "Yes" or "Interesting" He listened. He wasn't
watching something across the street or rolling His eyes hoping I would
"just get to the point." God listened.
And when He spoke, He
spoke strong meaningful words, sometimes they were stern, but they were
never condescending, never mocking, never did He once make me feel
"stupid" or feel like I was wasting a single second of his time. He
spoke words of healing, of life, of encouragement. He made me feel
special, he made me feel loved. God listened to me.
Now I know
what you're thinking. God would never put everyone else on hold. He's
omnipotent he would just listen to everyone at once, after all he's God.
And so you picture in your mind God sitting at a big desk
surrounded by papers & forms by which he runs the universe. His
E-mail is full of Standard Responses, and automatic replies. You see him
with a cell phone in one ear, his speaker phone broadcasting the
eloquent prayer of some big name preacher, because after all they are
more important than me. And his pager vibrating loudly where he stuck it
in his right hand desk drawer. While his monitor is buried under yellow
sticky notes with names scribbled so carelessly they can't even be
read. And if this is what you see, than you're not seeing God. You see
us. For you see this is how we try to "listen" to everyone at once. But
that's not God.
God puts the world on hold and listens to me.
And he'll do the same for you, at the same time, with the same love & care & interest.
After all He is God and YOU are his most important child.
-R. Harris
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