Silence

I don't generally post poetry here, but I thought you might like another sneak peek into the next book.  I'm waiting still for a couple of editors' thoughts, but I still plan to have something available for purchase by November 1, 2011.  Still can't quite believe it.  What a year it's been!  Hope you like the bit below and hope it makes you wonder at what else is in store. 

Thanks for sharing the journey with me!


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When one’s world is

Silent

The weight of words

Is skewed

Enhanced

Magnified.

They shout

Suddenly

“hey!”

“I love you”

“where were you?”

“see you!”

And you wonder at

Your value to the

Speaker

And your value

To the world

Because

In the absence of sound

No one greets

tells

asks.

There is only

Quiet.

Loud, astoundingly thick, heavy, suffocating

Silence.

And then you realize the

Void of sound

Is greatly noticed.

Unless

You listen.

If you are listening

To the sound of silence

With an open heart

And a clear mind

You may hear in your heart and mind

The Shepherd’s voice.

He says

His sheep know His voice.

He calls them

by name.

Ears of faith

Tuned to past words

Spoken, read, remembered.

I answer again and again

“Here am I, Lord.”

Wrapping me in grace

He speaks.

Shrouding me with peace

He speaks.

Filling the quiet with abundance

He shouts!

1 Kings 19:12  Amplified Bible (AMP)

^“12And after the earthquake a fire,

but the Lord was not in the fire;

and after the fire [a sound of gentle stillness and] a still, small voice.”

Now that the earthquake and fire

Have shaken and burned

All that was,

Teach me, Lord.

Help me hear.

Don’t let me despise

This season.