"When I pause in the hush of His holy presence When I'm so still I can hear each whispered word When I pause to pray I enter His cathedral These are the times when God seems so near.
There are times when I cannot feel His presence, When the clouds of doubt obscure the Master's smile But when I'm still enough to hear His gentle whisper Then I know my Lord has been there all the while.
When I pause in the hush of His holy presence When I'm so still I can hear each whispered word When I pause to pray I enter His cathedral These are the times when God seems so near.
When I pause in the hush of His holy presence When I'm so still I can hear each whispered word When I pause to pray I enter His cathedral These are the times when God seems so near.
These are the times when God seems so near."
In this crazy busy world in which we live, I sometimes run around just as crazy. Sometimes the news, the people around us and myself are busy talking and forcing our thoughts on this old world. I wonder how many times with all this craziness, I fail to listen to that still, small voice that may be speaking and I miss what He is saying?
I have always loved to get up early in the morning and watch the darkness turn to light. I love to watch a new day begin. I don't think I ever appreciated my love for waking early as much as I do until I was in long term care, trying to recover from whatever it was that put me down for a while. It was in those early mornings, very quiet hours, when God seemed so very near. The nurses would give me my night time meds and I think it always included something to make me sleep so I could rest comfortably (and maybe so they wouldn't be bothered LOL) But almost every morning I would wake around 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. Not being able to talk, move or even press a nurse call button, I found it to be a time when God was right there with me. Nothing else mattered. One of the respiratory therapist who saw after me would often come in and his words were almost always, "are you awake?". I would nod my head, wishing I could tell him the closeness of God I felt at that moment. But, I honestly think, he knew.
As we travel today through this world of chaos, confusion, uncertainty, and all those feelings that creep into our hearts and minds, we should find comfort in knowing, "our Lord is with us all the time". I pray you will be blessed with hearing "When God Seems So Near"!
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