When there is no response ...

mourningdove~ · Nov 21, 2022

Sometimes we do our best, to prepare the words we feel lead to share.
We put our heart and mind and soul into our words. And often our love.
And yet when we speak them, share them, it seems no one cares.
No one responds.

In the Prologue to the Rule of St. Benedict, we read:
“Listen carefully … and incline the ear of your heart.”

For Benedict, listening with the ear of our heart is the foundational attitude from which our actions should flow.
The Bible has much to say about listening also.

Listening is important.

In today’s busy and oftentimes chaotic world, it can be very hard to listen.
So much seems to be vying for our attention, soliciting from us a response.
And yet, it is when we listen that we can learn, that we can grow ...
that we can perhaps hear in the silence something the Lord is wanting for us to hear.

I have not mastered the art of listening, I have very much more to go.
But I have learned that when others do not respond noticeably, visibly to something I or others have shared,
it may not be because they have not heard.

… It may simply be that they are listening.

YahuahSaves · Nov 22, 2022

mourningdove~ said:
But I have learned that when others do not respond noticeably, visibly to something I or others have shared,
it may not be because they have not heard.

… It may simply be that they are listening.

The same could be said of God too... he's always listening.

By_the_Book · Nov 22, 2022

Try not to take it personally. It most likely has absolutely nothing to do with you. Years ago this used to be a really great site that informed, edified, grew people, was a real outlet for God to move and work but over the years it's been so sanitized and genericized and caused to be so politically correct that there's not much moving of The Spirit left in it. There's a lot of people satisfying their own need to write stuff and believe that people are reading it but there's not a lot of moving of God going on. I'm sorry that people have caused the site to get to that condition but please don't make it about yourself. More and more they seem to be seeking people to actually write stuff to fill the site, to get those clicks, because there's not enough interaction by the actual Holy Spirit and people. So what you're describing is not just about you if you look around you'll see it's site-wide.

If you ever have something you want to discuss and you want to send me a PM, a personal message through the sites conversation tool, I guarantee you I will respond.

YahuahSaves · Nov 22, 2022

By_the_Book said:
Try not to take it personally. It most likely has absolutely nothing to do with you. Years ago this used to be a really great site that informed, edified, grew people, was a real outlet for God to move and work but over the years it's been so sanitized and genericized and caused to be so politically correct that there's not much moving of The Spirit left in it. There's a lot of people satisfying their own need to write stuff and believe that people are reading it but there's not a lot of moving of God going on. I'm sorry that people have caused the site to get to that condition but please don't make it about yourself. More and more they seem to be seeking people to actually write stuff to fill the site, to get those clicks, because there's not enough interaction by the actual Holy Spirit and people. So what you're describing is not just about you if you look around you'll see it's site-wide.

If you ever have something you want to discuss and you want to send me a PM, a personal message through the sites conversation tool, I guarantee you I will respond.

Ah-ha.. makes sense now... I was thinking this site, though it's mostly Christian content, reminds me of a secular site I was on years ago.

"this used to be a really great site that informed, edified, grew people, was a real outlet for God to move and work but over the years it's been so sanitized and genericized and caused to be so politically correct that there's not much moving of The Spirit left in it".

Too bad I was late to the party

mourningdove~ · Nov 25, 2022

Pipp@ said:
Too bad I was late to the party

You are not late ...

To everything there is a season.
(Eccles. 3:1)

mourningdove~ · Nov 25, 2022

From Ecclesiastes chapter 3:

To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:

A time to be born,
And a time to die;
A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;

A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
And a time to build up;

A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;

A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;

A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.

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