Listening for our way.
We only just started using satnav in the last couple of years as we drive from place to place. It has definitely helped reduce the number of lively discussions about the way to go. Our satnav has a soothing voice giving instructions.
Sometimes though we aren’t paying attention properly and miss what is the right lane to be in or miss the correct roundabout exit.
Sometimes our attention is distracted by things around us or music on the radio or even all the heavy traffic stopping us from going the right way especially in a strange city.
Jesus was often surrounded by crowds clamouring for his attention, wanting him to help them, especially as he drew nearer to Jerusalem in the last weeks of his life. He needed to find space to draw breath and listen.
Often we feel as if we are firefighting with all that life is asking of us, throwing our way daily and there is no time to draw a breath and to listen out for the way ahead.
This has been true down through the ages as folk struggled to find their way and survive through the many everyday activities and to overcome the difficulties in their times as we do today in very different times.
On Sunday we sang an old hymn written in the 8th century, CH4 465
Be thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
naught be all else to me, save that thou art;
thou my best thought in the day or the night,
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.
