God's Whispers

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world ~C.S. Lewis 

We all want God’s voice to thunder through the air with the answer to our problem. But God’s is the still small voice...the gentle whisper. Nothing draws human focus quite like a whisper. Perhaps there’s reason. God’s whisper means "I must stop ranting and move closer to Him until my head is bent together with His and then, as I listen, I will find my answer."  ~author unknown 

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. ~John Henry Newman 

Let your heart guide you. It whispers softly, so listen closely. ~author unknown

Paying Attention

Sometimes we are caught up in a busy world that we become unaware of the danger 
ahead of us  just like this caricature.  I have posted here a part of a newspaper write-up  by Fr. Jerry Orbos.  A good reminder for everyone.

When God orders us to do something, we must listen. Many of us half-listen or do not listen at all. Why? Because we listen to ourselves or to the world around us. God speaks to us every day in ordinary ways. In the Holy Bible He speaks to us in a special way. If we want to listen to God, we must tone down the volume of our own headsets and the noise of the world around us. Only with a listening ear, and a prayerful heart can we truly listen and discern. ~Fr. Jerry Orbos

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ~Andre Gide

Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it! ~Luke 11:28