Sometimes I can't find my voice. People ask how I am and I want to tell them it hasn't been the best of times and I'm fighting just to keep the normal, but I my voice chokes and I say I'm fine.So they smile and nod and say good and I want to fling myself upon them begging for them to listen, but my voice won't let me.
You go to church and sit in the pew. All around you sit people and afterwards you get up to talk to them and they say everything is fine.
Are they really using their real voice? Or are the words that are choked out faked to show a false security?
Everyone has a voice, but more often then not they aren't using it. Their using the fake voice to show the world that everything is just fine. Too often we fall for the trap. We believe everything is fine and go on in our merry way ignoring the problem.
Look for the hidden voices. The ones that need to be heard and listened too.The voices that are weary and need to be rested in the Lord.
Are you listening?
3 comments:
Hi Bethanne!
I'm dropping in from the FMF linkup. Good post! I pray for a discerning ear so that I may hear the underlying truths hidden in some of the voices around me. I also pray to be a safe spot, so that people are willing to share the truth with me, rather than hide.
Enjoy your weekend.
I am listening, bless you.
Hi Bethanne,
Being honest is part of being genuine. ;) I'm more of the mindset that real sharpening of souls does not happen in the pew on Sunday. It happens when we love our neighbors as ourselves during the week, and get to know people and how they really are. It takes time. People will try and hide out of fear of man, but it is only through telling the truth to ourselves and to others that we can grow. ;)
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