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A Pebble in My Shoe Beginning to talk with God
My pen hovered over the blank page in trepidation for a moment before I wrote the words in the scrawl of an inconsistent ballpoint pen. “Lord, is there anything You want to say to me?” The question stared back at me blankly. I tapped the end of the pen on the miles of empty page and waited. A seemingly random word or two came to my mind—the beginning of a sentence— not even a complete thought. I hesitated, unsure if I should write it down. Was that God? It seemed so incredibly presumptuous to assume. What if I was wrong? What if I wasn’t? The words came piecemeal. As though the Holy Spirit were giving dictation to a slow typist or perhaps just a slow listener . . . He waits for me to write down what He’s given, before He says anything more. I used to be jealous of Christians who had a clear sense of what God was saying to them personally. Not just a timely Bible verse that came to mind—nothing against that, of course—but
God was speaking to me already.
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