Deuteronomy 4:36 He
let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. He let you see his
great fire here on earth so he could speak to you from it.
There
was a time oh just a few decades ago when you had to muffle your voice or
simply hope for the best when you answered the phone, because you never knew
who was going to be on the other line when you answered.
One
of my Aunt’s always sounded like you woke her from a sound sleep when you called
her until she figured out who you were then she was all the way live. Jabbering and going on.
We’ve
all done it sometimes you didn’t have it in you to tell the telemarketer no so you just pretended like you weren’t the lady or the man of the house and you
advised that poor hardworking telemarketer (I use to be one it’s not the most
loving field to go into) that the owner of the house had moved to Cambodia on
safari and would not be returning, hoping that they would take you off their
list, but bless their hearts they always called back the next day.
Then
like technology magic our phone system evolved first away with the rotary, then
to the cordless and then loe and behold caller ID!!
Caller
ID the enemy of telemarketers and bill collectors. We’ve evolved so much in this arena that I
don’t even have to look at the phone, some phones speak the caller’s name or
you can just glance up at the TV, where the caller id displays and lazily decide if you should even make a motion
for the phone!
Several
years ago a funny (ok funny to me, not so much for my Aunt Emily who was
probably in her late eighties or early nineties) She had the caller ID and was quite tickled
by it. People loved calling her because
she was full of history and kindness and wisdom. One day her phone rang and like any person
with a reasonable amount of sense would do she checked the caller id
first. The name that came across was Adele
Jenkins. My Aunt looked at that phone
for a long time and decided she wasn’t going to pick up this call! You see Adele was my great Aunt and Aunt
Emily’s sister who had died a few years prior to this phone call.
I
hollared when I heard this story. My
great Aunt Adele was beautiful but known for being mean and rather cut throat
to folks. Personally I adored her she
use to make me sugar sandwiches! I
never heard many kind words about her from family, so if Adele was calling from
the grave clearly my Aunt Emily felt the conversation wasn’t going to go to
well.
We
later learned that Aunt Adele had gotten one of my cousins house phones in her
name.It didn’t matter prior to caller ID because you couldn’t see the name of
the biller on the phone. And I bet a lot of family members were ignoring or not
returning calls to my cousin, because the caller ID was coming up with the name of my dearly (sugar butter sandwhich making) departed Aunt Adele.
This
was so many years ago, but it still cracks me up!!! It also made me think about how God speaks to
us. I believe I’ve written before I talk
to God and he does talk back. He speaks
through images and sometimes words, He speaks to both my mind and my
heart and my ears. Even sometimes through my
writing. There are a lot of people who
don’t believe He speaks at all and you know what that is there business and human right to believe that (I still got nothing but love for you). But this is the part that makes me sad is that some poor folks think they
aren’t worthy to even hear from God.
He
spoke to Moses, through a burning bush, because maybe that’s how Moses needed
to hear God. He spoke to David through
Psalms. Samuel heard voices. Jesus communicated through prayer.
Everybody has their own way its personal and all yours. Check your God caller ID verify how he’s
trying to call your name. Let me be real
sometimes I don’t like what He says and I would have to believe that He doesn’t
like what I say, but isn’t that the depth of communication anyway! Isn't that love.
My
prayer is that one know you are worth talking to even in your darkest places. Two enjoy a great conversation every day with God.
No comments:
Post a Comment