What a whirlwind of a week! A happy whirlwind: girls returned to preschool on Wednesday and my in-laws moved down to Virginia from New Jersey the same afternoon. I have to admit that I love routine AND I already love having family living locally. For the first time ever in our 8 years of marriage.
Now – for writing this Friday morning, five minutes on a given topic each week. No editing; just writing.
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He has witnessed one of God’s most glorious mountaintop moments: fire coming down from heaven to consume an altar’s sacrifice, proving in the sight of hundreds of Baal worshipers that he is the True God. No wonder Elijah thought God would speak to him in thunder, or whirlwind. His was a big, glorious God who had stolen the headlines with his other “god”-defying powers. Now that Elijah was listening for God to speak to him, he was listening for BIG.
But that’s now how God spoke. He was in a whisper. In the quiet. Elijah had to wait. To settle down his soul. To lean in close. For the God of the Big is also the God of the intimate. Who whispers to his people to let them know that he is close and to draw them closer to him. Whispering implies intimacy. It requires more intentional listening.
In my bustling whirlwind, do I have time and space and quiet to listen? To lean in to God’s heart – to open up his word and listen to these words of life? Yes, he will meet me amidst the turmoil and the whirlwind, but what he truly delights in with his own? To draw them close and to whisper peace over their souls and into the crevices of our hearts that only he knows how to touch.
What will he whisper? I don’t know. We don’t know what he said to Elijah. Just that it was in a whisper. And so quiet down and listen. He still speaks. But he won’t compete with the chaos. He waits for you to step away from it.
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hidden glory 
Good, good words. That passage is just the passage I was thinking about when I read the word for today. When you wrote about “time, space, and quiet,” I thought about the three elements needed for facilitating great play: time, space, and materials. For kids to play well, they need those three things.
And so, the space and time are there but not the quiet. Then I connect the “material” of God’s word. In the quiet, God uses His word to whisper His truth deep into our hearts. To watch a child in deep play is beautiful. The child is immersed in the moment. To be immersed in the quiet of God’s whisper, what can compare to that? Holy ground.
Thank you for your encouragement. May you find time, space, and material-quiet for a great holy-ground whisper with God.
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So grateful to have stopped here this morning after writing my own post. I used Elijah too! I love when God whispers His confirmation in just this way 🙂 I love that He whispers to each of us. And the whisper is personal & unique to each of us as He knows just what we need to hear. Happy Friday!
This is SO rich…thank you friend! Needed these words of life today! 🙂