Are you listening to me?!




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Are you ever so involved in what you are doing that when someone comes up to you and asks you a question, you don't answer...you don't even hear it? Do you ever say "just a minute" and then completely forget to do anything?

That is something I find myself doing all the time. I get so busy...especially at my computer. My girls will come up and ask me a question and I don't really hear them. They have to ask again and again to get my attention. Sometimes I even give them an answer without allowing the question to register in my brain and I don't even remember saying it. They really hate it when I say, "just a minute" or "wait 'til I'm done with this..." but never do what they asked.

Maybe it is a disorder I have, but it is a major problem. The sad thing is that I'm just recently realizing that it is the exact same thing I do to God. I want Him to speak to my heart, but when He does, most often, I don't notice it. Sometimes I do notice, but I subconsciously say "just a minute" or "I'll do that right after I'm done with this..." Then I never get to doing the thing that I feel like God laid on my heart to do.

I'm glad that He is revealing this to me. Hopefully I can make a change in my life that will allow me to pause in the middle of what I'm doing and listen...listen to my children, to my husband, and especially to the Lord. Then, if hearing can lead to doing...I'll be set!