Sitting quietly surrounded by nature’s beauty is a perfect time to ask of divine intelligence, “What would you have me remember right now?” We are always answered when we think to stop and ask.
I have had some wonderful conversations with God sitting on a log overlooking a little alpine lake at 9,000 feet, and although nature does help our connection with the divine, we can stop to listen anytime.
The quiet voice of God within us, while ever present, often goes unnoticed when our minds are too busy with the details of life. So it’s helpful to cultivate strategies that allow us to stop, and hear the voice of the larger truth that imbues all life experience.
One thing that helps me hear is to write. My journal-writing has transitioned over the years into part journal, part letter to God, and part God’s response to me. My journal entries have begun “Dear God” for awhile now, and as I spill my thoughts and feelings onto paper God’s perspective begins to come through in what I’m writing, as direction or validation or loving acceptance.
Of course it’s all God. As I write to God I write to myself, and as God’s responses come through in what I’ve written, I know that God within me has all of the answers that I will ever need. There is nothing I lack.
Certainly prayer and meditation are important ways to listen to the highest within us, whether we seek to know what our best course of action might be, or just want to hear what God is wanting to say to us in that moment.
We can also just take a minute and stop. When we pull our awareness back from the racing thoughts of the day, God is there, in the voice of loving wisdom that lives in our hearts.
May this tool be a blessing. . .
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