Today

There is a season for everything. Preparation is as vital as the actual execution of the battle plan, the journey as necessary as arriving. You can’t have one without the other, no winner crosses the finish line without running the race.

I can’t help but wonder, though, how often we put off doing something today in the name of not being ready, feeling lazy, believing we need to keep rearranging or training until it’s all perfect or, simply, thinking it’s not our responsibility.

“Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” – Hebrews 4 v 7

A stirring as the words of life settle like butterflies, light and beautiful. My unbelief and disobedience are the very things that harden my heart and keep me from entering into the rest my life depends on (Hebrews 3 and 4). I have heard His voice and I have believed, but am I turning, daily, back to The Voice that spoke everything into being? The voice that, eventually, came as a quiet whisper when Elijah had endured violent winds, an earthquake and a fire waiting for the Lord to pass by? (1 Kings 19)

I write quietly tonight, too. Gentle taps on the keyboard because sometime, one day, another time and never are not options. Hush. Peace. Be still a moment.

Today!

So often we have to be still to hear anything. Our scurrying and the noise of our frantic lives keeps many questions unanswered, pains unhealed and whispers unheard.

What might unveil, unfold or release

When His words fall like rain?

Waterfalls and rivers

Carrying away the pain.

Answering and healing

Like no physician can,

Have you seen Him, Have you heard Him?

Today He has a plan.

There is rest for the weary,

Hard hearts are turning soft,

Tune out all the other voices

Provision falls from Love aloft.