In every moment is a Whisper. Welcome to one man’s quest to listen
  • Home
  • About
  • Daily Thoughts
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
In every moment is a Whisper. Welcome to one man’s quest to listen
  • Home
  • About
  • Daily Thoughts
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
In every moment is a Whisper. Welcome to one man’s quest to listen
No Result
View All Result
Home Reality into Living

Awareness

by bill
2003-05-30
0 0

It is hard not to see things in India. The chaos, extremes of all kinds, and contrast is up front and personal. The question that I often pose to visitors and residents alike is simple.

“Did you see the beauty in…?”

The answer on the face in the first second provides the honesty that the question demands. What beauty? Where was that? How could I miss something like that? Where was I when that was in sight? Here, today, in this moment?

Yes, in the midst of the chaos, poverty, pain, dirt, and exploitation there are incredible scenes of kindness, hope, mercy, energy, and dialogue. Examples where one naturally does not expect to find it. Smiles and sparkling eyes found with children struggling for survival, seemingly living in a world where opportunities are rare to nonexistent. Acts of kindness where no repayment is possible even if it might be considered. Individuals publicly express personal thanks for things in the present and without any apparent thought for what might have been. When least expected, and from the most unlikely people, life plays out acts of beauty, moments of awe, and gifts of unmerited grace.

Yet most people are rushed, hassled, and otherwise blind to the very moments that give life color, texture, and memories.

John records a simple statement. “A great Sign appeared in Heaven.” (Revelation 12.1)

Most people have and will miss the description that follows. They are words buried in a book of revelation. And yet the message and description carried within is playing out all around us. God is at work. God is engaged. God’s presence is out on display. We can see it and experience it; yet so many of us, my “self” included, are blind to the reality of the present.

My advice is simple and I find myself listening. Yesterday’s blindness doesn’t mean that today must be the same. Each moment is an opportunity for hope, grace, and love – if I choose to be aware and act. The opportunities are there, for all of us, equally and in unlimited measures.

Post Views: 1,092
ShareTweet
Previous Post

Valuables

Next Post

Natural

bill

bill

Hearing and sharing stories are a big part of living and growing. I in the hope my stories will help you hear more of your own. Feel free to share and be part of the quest to hear whispers in the moments we have.

Next Post

Natural

Roles

Latest Posts

  • Signs
  • Shadows
  • Path
  • Rides
  • Delicate

Categories

  • Awareness
  • Because
  • Belonging
  • Dear John, Continuing Conversation
  • Dear John, Love God
  • Discovery
  • Hope Emerges
  • Hope Lives
  • Invitation
  • Journey
  • Knowing
  • Living
  • More
  • Reality God's Way Part II
  • Reality into Living
  • Reality Strikes
  • Reality…God's Way
  • Recreated
  • Recreation
  • Renewal
  • Restoration
  • Steps
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Unknown
  • Welcome
  • Window
  • Windows

Archives

In every moment is a Whisper. Welcome to one man’s quest to listen

  • Home
  • About
  • Daily Thoughts
  • Contact

2023 Copyright © Daily Whispers.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About
  • Daily Thoughts
  • Contact

© 2021 Daily Whispers.