It's all good so far

“silent surrender, quiet and still, come into my life, open to your will”.

The first part of the Examen exercise, stilling oneself, you make yourself open to find the presense of the Lord and welcome him in.

The opening hymn is paraphrased above. The choral arrangement was a little hard to hear and then we had a lesson which was the parable of the word as seed. I don’t know why it just wasn’t working.

Perhaps it was the traffic in my commute, I just could not figure what I was supposed to find today. Was this going to be a work session similar to an uninspired physical workout, one where you go through the motions?

Then I heard the instructions for the reading reflection, given before the reading is replayed. The instructions were to listen for the first and last word of the parable.

Great I thought, Cliff notes. Then I heard the words, the first was “listen” and the second was “hear”.

It hit me Many times I am guilty of listening and not hearing. Perhaps I need to spend more time in silent surrender, diminishing my ego, spin, interpretation, complaints about the production of the podcast, so I can listen and hear more.

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