Hello! It’s Me, God! (Lisa)

I love to burn-carve on gourds, to discover ways to express my thoughts and ideas, prayers and imagery more completely. I love to collaborate with something that comes from the earth, a little seed that grew into this uniquely shaped gourd. These little gourds each had a different sound when rolled in your palm. The first made a loud knocking sound, the second sounded like a rainstick, the next, a soft whispered sound and the final gourd, shaped like a vessel, made no sound at all. It was in holding them and listening in prayerful meditation that I heard the words God meant for me to hear. Thank you for allowing me to share my holy moment!

I AM HERE

(Father, Son and Holy Spirit are speaking to us, asking Do you hear Me?)

***In prayer, I answer***

Do you hear me in the knocking?

In the loud incessant banging in your head

In the noisy scary sounds, the solid ones too

The strong knock on your door, your heart, your head

Refusing to not be heard

Do you know, it is Me? God?

I am knocking!

Do you hear Me in your knocking?

In your prayerful pounding?

I am with you in the knocking.

I Am

I am with You.

I hear a knocking

Loud and pounding in my heart

I hear it, feel it booming, beating fast

I hear a voice as I run to hide

Tumble and fall

Til’ on bent knee

I hear the voice inside of me

I hear Your voice

You are here

Knocking at the door of my heart

Longing to weave Yourself into my life

Do you hear Me in the voices?

That sometimes rain down on you

The advice and wisdom unasked for?

Do you hear Me?

In the good and the bad

Worded right. Worded wrong

I am in them all.

I am in the words of comfort

And of challenge

And of painful best intentions

I Am.

I am in it all.

I hear the voices

Small and Loud

The soft and harsh ones too

Of people who surround me

You are here when the sounds leave their lips

In the words that bring comfort and challenge

You speak in their voice and intentions

If only of our collective broken humanness

You are here.

Do you hear Me in the whisper?

In the cool gentle breeze

In the quiet of your mind

In the questions that you dare to ponder

Do you hear Me in the answer?

Do you hear Me in the “zoom-zoom”

In the busyness of your life?

In sound of his breath? In the sound of hers?

In the purr of your children sleeping

Do you hear Me?

I Am.

I am here.

I hear a Whisper

A soft sweet gentle love

It makes me quiet

Be still! It commands

I listen. Hard.

I am patient in Its presence

The Whisper of God

Transforms me into a quiet, attentive

Patient

A still and peaceful soul.

You are here.

Do you know Me in the silence?

In the stillness of your heart

When I Am

I am listening with all My Heart.

My Sacred Heart

Do you know ME?

I know you in your silence

I know the words too fearful to say

I know

I Am.

And I will never leave you.

And

Sometimes

I cannot hear

A thing.

No pounding

No voices

No whispers

Nothing.

I become

The emptiness in the vessel

And You fill it

With Your listening

You hear me

You hear me!

You quietly listen

Inside of me

You are here.