from mine to yours
People ask me how I’m doing and I want to tell them the truth, but I’m learning that very few want to hear about the pains of last night or the contemplations of this morning.
So I’ll try to come up with a small fact about my week to satiate your need to ask, but your apathy to know.
Image: Amtrak from Seattle to Portland, OR – May 11, 2017
So many choices to make. So many things I’m still unsure of. I keep asking people for advice and help, yet every time — their responses never answer and — empty I walk away.
Because I’m asking them for answers to questions You’ve never let them hear.
They know my words, but my question has been veiled. You keep it from them knowing an answer weighs more depending on the source. You want to be both my Answerer and my Answer.
“So the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord?” – Exodus 4:11 NKJV
“They have ears, but they do not hear..” (speaking of idols) – Psalm 135:17 NKJV
“To You I will cry, O Lord my Rock: Do not be silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.”- Psalm 28:1 NKJV
Image: Powell’s Bookstore in Portland, OR – May 13, 2017