"Hello Lord - it's me, your daugher..."

"Right now,
I don't hear so well and
I was wondering if you could
speak up?

I know that you tore the veil
so I could sit with you in person,
and hear what you're saying...
But right now I think that you are
whispering...

And somewhere in the back of my mind
I think you are telling me to wait.
And although patience has never been mine
I will wait to hear from you...

O Lord, I'm waiting on you...."
-  Sara Groves

Sara Groves' "Hello Lord" is such a perfect description of my morning's sweet dialogue with God.  One sided, no sided...and finally...silence.

Here is the poem that followed:


I am here
I am waiting.
I long for the voice
of One
who cried out
to His son
in the
wilderness,
who spoke
to a
small boy...
with his father...
climbing Mount Moriah,
a young man
on the battlefield
armed with only
five
smooth
stones,
a prophet
standing
by a river,
a mother
waiting
to deliver,
a saviour
weeping
in a garden...

I will not
move a muscle,
rustle a sleeve,
let the sound of crickets,
or the murmuring of
the ego
distract me from
the space of
Your
silent
presence

I am not seeking to
be heard,
to say the right words,
to pray the right prayer,
to write a hymn,
or gather the next
testimony to
my chest,
and
tweak it
to perfection

I only want
You

I want Your
heartbeat
at
my
ear
as I
lie against Your
vast,
beautiful,
wide
world of
seamless,
universal,
undivided being

no
absolute
or
relative

no human
or
divine

no spiritual
or
material

just You

just
the
seamless garment of
Your
Father-Motherhood...
and me,
Your daughter,
pressed against You
like a
nursing child,
one
with
its
Source.

I want the silent
flow,
the undiluted purity,
the sweet savor
of the
Word that
is not words

I want to
FEEL
You coursing
through my
being
like
the
blood of the
Lamb
as she
skips
along the
edge of
a ravine...
eyes
only on
the
silhouette of
the Shepherd
outlined
by the
Sun.

I am here
I am
as still
as
a
lamb-
child
waiting
for the
first
drop
of
milk
to
flow....

waiting in the hush of a new dawn...
Kate
Kate Robertson, CS