When You Cannot Pray
The Unspoken Yet Heard
Have you ever had a time when you could not pray? Not because you didn’t want to. But because the pain was so striking that all had gone numb. I have
I remember one such time in particular. Even now I sit and think and look for words. There are not many… yet there are. They are the unspoken
Yet heard
I sat. For over two hours. I sat. “Praying” All the while “Saying Nothing”
Yet heard
I mustered enough strength to whisper two words. Two hours of “Saying Nothing” said all that I had been saying… without saying. Yet heard
Carry me
And He did. And He does. And He will.
He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.
Isaiah 40:11