"God, speak to me!"

The man whispered "God, speak to me," and a meadowlark sang. But the man did not listen.

So the man yelled, "God speak to me," and the thunder rolled across the sky. But the man did not listen.

The man looked around and said, "God, let me see you." And a star shone brightly. But the man did not notice.

So the man cried out in despair, "Touch me God, and let me know you are here!" Whereupon God reached down and touched the man.

But the man brushed the butterfly away and walked on.

Silence allows each of us the opportunity to listen. We may not hear God as we wish to hear him, and what he says may not be what we want to hear, but if we are silent, maybe we will hear him speak to us.

J. S. Simon

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Now Is Eternity

"The deepest need each of us has, even if we are not conscious of it, is that of eternal life." With these words Christoph F. Blumhardt uncovers the root cause of so much that has gone wrong in modern life: the loss of any awareness of eternity. For most people nowadays, it is the temporal and transitory things of life that are most important.

That is not surprising, for those things are immediate, tangible, and visible. But it is still lamentable, because it means that the eternal dimension of life - that part of it that is divine and thus enduring - falls by the wayside, unnoticed and unacknowledged.

When eternity is forgotten, human destiny is robbed of its real significance, and the goal of life limited to the search for fulfillment on an earthly plane. Remembered, it enlarges our view and, through what is best and noblest in us, reminds us of the promise of another home on a higher plane: the world from which we come, and to which we must one day return.

To be mindful of eternity is to know that our earthly existence will one day be overshadowed by the eternal reality of everlasting life. ... eternity is a present reality whose transformative power is already breaking into time, and whose glory is already visible here and there, wherever there are eyes to see it. And so for us, it is a guide and a beacon, a source of strength, a fountain of hope that never fails.

We need this hope urgently, no less than we need our daily bread.

(From the preface of "Now Is Eternity")

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