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Each year, I choose a focus for my personal prayers and those that I lift up on behalf of the ministry. Last year, I asked for God’s wisdom; the year before, provision—financial and workers—for IRSM. What a blessing to see His answer to those requests, for which we are extremely grateful. In our thanksgiving, we continue to lift up similar petitions for wisdom and provision. (And thank you for being part of these answered prayers!)
This year, my emphasis in prayer and in study is Listening. As someone who stays quite busy, whose thoughts are always whirling with a multi-tasked variety of ideas, dates, commitments, and people, it is hard to stop and listen—to be fully present in the moment and listen. Listening to God, to others, and to the world.
As I reflect this year on “listening,” especially in the context of prayer (this month´s theme), I am reminded of a story from a few years ago.
It was a day in which the list in preparation for my upcoming trip was long: lessons to review, phone calls to make, emails to respond to, etc. Living in the basement, I was able to do most things from the bottom floor, but I had to go upstairs to eat my lunch, run errands, etc.
Each time I went upstairs, Kadesh, my nephew, greeted me and came running over to be held, played with, or, at the very least, to find out what I was doing and join with me in whatever the task at hand. Bonus is when I took him downstairs with me and he got to play around in the basement for a bit.
