Time for conversation

I wake
thinking in lists
what must be done
mental check marks
bullet points
never believing
there is time enough
perhaps an early start
is best
yet always
my brain static
is interrupted

Martha, Martha,
you are worried and upset about many things,
but few things are needed—or indeed only one*

Yes, Lord,
I stop, to calm
come to a place of stillness
there is no one there
but Him and me
a hillside
an ocean shore
a river bank
where idle chatter
steps aside
makes way
for conversation

I offer
a willing heart
open ears
and a listening spirit
What words I speak
are not important
for their clarity
or perfection
meter or rhyme, no,
they are significant only
because of their intended
audience
and the intimacy
of their exchange

This then is prayer
may these conversations
never cease


from Luke 10:41-42




Jamming with Bonnie about Whitespace and Prayer

also joining my voice with Emily and the imperfect, broken and redeemed.