God's response

You call my name, then do not listen for my response

Your time is valuable

Your projects many

When will you stop?

When will you listen?

In the night I speak, I settle your soul

By day you forget this peace I bring to you

The rush of the day brings heavy burdens

Peace be your soul

Love be your warm heart

How you shiver

Let me bring you warmth

Let my arms envelope you that you may rest

You look weary

There you go again, you call upon my name

I am right here

Do you not hear me?

Do you not see me?

Tensions build

Frustration climax

In your frustration you curse me, yet I love you unconditionally

My love is right here

Yes, for you, always

Please stop and feel it

I know you are busy but can you just stop for a moment

Do you feel my presence?

The cool breeze upon your cheeks, this is me

A smile from a stranger on the the street, this, too, is me

I am so desperately trying to reach you

Your needs are many and I have that which you need 

If you but stop, listen and hear

I have laughed with you

As a child you would run free in the fields picking dandelions, making wishes

Your wishes brought you into my arms and you felt safe

We use to have conversations

First I would listen then you would listen

What happened to the listening?

Now you talk and run to your next project

I am still listening

I feel your tiredness

Your sadness now my sadness

Your body is on overdrive

Slow down

What is important, your heart will let you know

Some of your projects bring happiness

But only I can bring joy

Only I can breathe into you life

True life

Let me give you my breath that you may live

Right now you run from place to place

There are not enough hours in the day

You pray for more hours

When they do not come, you discount prayer

Pray not for more time

Pray rather for more valued time

Purposed time

Remember I love you

I want the smile on your face to be sincere

I want it to reflect the love dwelling within you

The peace that consumes you

But until you stop, this can not be yours

Listen, I know that fear is real

You feel disconnected

Lost in a jungle of theories and projected emotions

You flounder in the "musts" decreed by others in society

Think

Live

Breathe for yourself

I am right here

I will be your breathe 

I am your life though you hide from me

Or is it yourself from which you hide?

Show your beauty

Rest upon our connection

Rest upon my love

And life will not be so difficult

For you will know peace

Love your companion

Need minimized

For truth is all you need is me   

With you, my dear, I have cried

I have wiped away your tears

Your first crush

Your first failure

The death of a loved one

I was hear and you let me comfort you

Let me comfort you again

Ij your heart you know I am real

You know you are never alone

Why not act as such

When you arise in the morning, you are off and running

Sit for a moment

Remember you are not alone

Feel my presence

Feel my love

Feel the safety of our connection 

This is your home

You are never alone yet you ignore this truth

You need not save the world

Do your best

Present your best effort

Love others

Treat them with fairness and respect

Develop your talents for they are many

Build a community that they may share in the physical duties presented 

Connect, too, with them

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link

Faith you have

Live, now, this faith

Worry not about tomorrow for it will come

Those hours they tick bye

Tomorrow is just another day

Now, this moment, this is life

Consecrated in love, I walk with you every moment

I carry you when you tire

Storms will pass

People, too, will come and go

But I remain a constant

Constantly loving

Constantly offering myself to you, my love

Fierce winds may blow taking with it securely fasten structures

Put your trust in me and your house will never be threatened

For your house built on solid ground

You house built upon faith, erected in the heart

The heart, my dwelling

I speak from the heart

Do you hear me?

I hear you

Again you call

Stop for a moment and listen to my response

"I am hear, I love you, let me walk with you"

The life you live on this earth is short

Marked by years, time ticks away

You say, "Where has the time gone?"

Consumed by work

Consumed by planning every moment

Consumed by waiting for tomorrow, wishing away this very moment

Calculated time passes quickly and life becomes a series of captured moments

Moments highlighted with smiles, others by tears, most by anxiety

Anticipation of a moment then it is gone

Captured by the heart yet visited by the mind

See you still question me

You question my presence

I am right here

I love you

Can you feel my love?

Please just stop

This life is but a passing moment

A moment in which you can feel my connection

A moment when you call upon me and listen for an answer

Should you stop but for a moment you will see this life need not consume you

I offer you love

I offer you peace

I offer you joy

I do not dangle it in front of you like a mule with a carrot that he may move

My offerings are sincere

My offerings you may take with you very second you breathe

For you breath, my life

Among the mayhem 

Among the constraints of the physical world

Among the bills that are due

You, my love, may feel love

You may feel my peace

My joy

This is not to be felt only in moments of contemplation

Moments of prayerful retreat

My love is for every moment

My peace every second

But you have to let me in

You have to slow down, even stop

Tomorrow, that will come

Today is mine, with you, my love

I love when you eyes sparkle with joy

This sparkle you shall always have if you but stop and acknowledge my presence

Stop

Please stop

That life may begin

This, what you now call life, is just running

Project to project

Obligation to obligation

You are lost in a sea of nothingness

For all this running is for nothing

All this worry for not

Millions walk this earth

I answer you when you call

Will you answer me when I respond?

Stop with the buts, the musts, the have-to's 

Be in the moment, this moment

And be with me for a lifetime

My love is real

My love I offer to you

My response to your call

Will you listen?

Do you hear me?

I am right here

I love you

Please come home

Love-

God