Yeah, I’ve reached 71, and that explains it some. Add much too much loud rock and roll in earlier years, dancing right in front of the speakers to sense the vibration in my chest, and together they explain my frequent, “Can you please repeat that?” Not quite bad enough for artificial ears, but enough to bother me some. I find myself copying my mom—when she didn’t hear what someone said, she’d smile and nod her head, praying she didn’t commit herself unknowingly.
But the decrease in my auditory hearing doesn’t match the importance of the decrease in my spiritual hearing.
Too much listening
to loud rock and roll
has destroyed
too much hearing
Whispers are seldom heard
and high ranges disappear
So I find myself
cut off from conversation
missing so much sound and life
Too much listening
to the loud cries of my desires
and minor pleasures
has destroyed
too much hearing
Your whispers are seldom heard
sensitive moments totally ignored
So I find myself
cut off from conversations with you
missing so much
of what you do in life
Too busy
too enrapt
in trivial pursuits
and carnal pleasures
to really listen
Kick Starting the Application
Have you experienced negative consequences to whispers lost from God? What caused you to not hear them? How could you have been better able to catch them?
Overall, how sensitive are you to the whispers of God? What helps you? What hurts you?
What one thing this week can you do to increase your sensitivity?