Is God still speaking to you?

God Is Still Speaking

“We are constantly reminded of how greed, commercialism, and the “me-me” attitude has permeated our culture.  As I go about, I am amazed at the spontaneous acts of kindness I am shown.  Someone holds a door, offers to carry a package, or motions me to a place in line.  Their smiling faces let me know that “Love your neighbor” is not a forgotten commandment, but evidence that God’s voice is not drowned out.”

Mary Lou Wilhelm

“God is still speaking to me the same way he always has—through the eyes of a new born baby and nature.  The beauty of a sunrise and sunset are indescribable.  The flight of a butterfly and the fact that the same tiny hummingbird finds its way back to the same flower on the same day year after year tells me that God still speaks.”

Ethel Owen

God is still speaking in all our lives.  Some days I have a hard time listening but not because God is not speaking.  Some days I’m just hard of hearing.  This early spring, with clouds of Japanese cherry trees and magenta red buds gracing nearly every yard, I am clear that the kingdom is right here.  Beauty is a vehicle that God uses to draw us close.

God is still speaking in the joyful exuberance of youth.  In the nursing home where my mother lived her last year, the staff was mostly young women.  Among them, they gave birth to seventeen babies that year!  It was confirmation that even in the saddest of times irrepressible life will have its way.  Those young women were kind and compassionate with my mother in ways that my jaded heart, with all its remembered slights and grievances, could not be.  

God is still speaking in dreams if we are inclined to listen.  John Sanford, Jungian Analyst and author of Dreams: God’s Forgotten Language, wrote, “In the midst of my own difficulties, it had been the understanding of my dreams which showed me the way through.”  In my own life, dreams have unfailingly guided me—there is no superfluous information in them if we’re patient enough to tease out their meaning.  Even without the expertise of a trained analyst, we can ponder a dream in our hearts and often it will reveal itself.

I’m willing to bet that you, too, could name ways in which God speaks to you.  I would love to hear about them.  When you post a comment it comes to me as an email, and I will answer.  I encourage you to tell me the ways that God still speaks to you. 

                                                            In the spirit,

                                                            Jane