Unbreakable
Currently Listening to Awake by Josh Groban
I have really been enjoying a song on the latest Josh Groban CD called “You Are Loved” It is really a powerful song. I imagine God singing it to me.
A favorite line is:
“if silence keeps you, I will break it for you”
I am afraid I really long for God to break the silence of the past 2000 years. I imagine the sky splitting as God breaks the silence and speaks to us.
On the other hand, I feel ungrateful for feeling this way, because I know that Christ Himself was God’s breaking of the silence. Christ is God’s Word to us.
I still long to hear God speak to the planet. I wonder when I cry because I can’t hear God, if He is also crying because we can’t hear Him? What is it that stops Him from speaking out and making Himself more known to us?
Ah well, here I sit, listing to and watching the “AT&T/Bell South Merger Celebration Town Hall” meeting webcast. Do you know that group applause sounds really terrible when digitally compressed? Maybe that is why UTube videos are not “filmed before a live studio audience.” It is funny how similar large corporate meetings are to large church meetings. Same sutes (no I can’t spell it any better than I can wear them), same conservative ties, same gray haired guys going on about something or the other, and the same periodic group applause. Wow, these guys look familiar. I can see how “Christian Conservative” gets mixed up with “Corporate America.” They even use the same clinches, and use strange terminology and put words together in ways that sound fancy, but don’t really mean very much. Both are just as boring too.
Gosh, I am such a hippie aren’t I? I watch this and think, “What the heck am I doing here?” Oh yeah, I’m making money. “It’s a living.” as they say. I really do want to do something where I help people every day, and the bottom line of my organization’s purpose is something more laudable than “shareholder value.”
Or maybe I’m just a malcontent.
God, is this discontentment and longing for something more meaningful to do with 40 hours a week from you, or am I just failing to be as grateful (and I am grateful for the money) to you as I should be for what you are providing for me?
Please do break the silence for me!
Posted 1/4/2007 12:22 PM
1 Comment:
Wow … I can relate. Have you ever wondered if Satan delays God’s messages, like he did with Daniel?
Posted 1/5/2007 12:10 PM by madhatterb78
