Waiting for God to Act Brian Zahnd edit

I love this:

/And yet the waiting is essential. For it’s in the waiting that our soul grows quiet and contemplative and cultivates a capacity for awareness by which we can discern what God is doing when he does act., 💜

We have been seduced by an idolatry that deceives us into thinking that God is mostly found in the big and loud, when in fact, God is almost never found in the big and loud.💜



the ways of God are more often found in trickling tears and whispered prayers.💜

we are waiting to become contemplative enough to discern what God is doing. 💜

God is always acting, because God is always loving his creation. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are always inviting us into their house of love. But when we are consumed by anger, harried by anxiety, and driven by impatience, we are blind and deaf to what God is actually doing in the present moment.💜

it was pagan stargazers and peasant shepherds who discerned what God was doing. They were not the experts and they were not the reactionaries at the loud center of religious noise; they were quiet people on the silent edges of contemplative thought.💜

To most people it would appear that the Magi and the shepherds were doing nothing of significance in their long nighttime vigils, but they were the ones who were able to discern what God was doing.💜

 ng birth in an out of the way place.

Waiting for God to act only seems like waiting for God to act. God is always acting because God is always loving the world and always giving birth to something. 💜

Waiting for God to act is actually waiting for your soul to become quiet enough and contemplative enough to discern what God is doing💜

  But if you want to discern the actions of God you must learn to first wait in quiet contemplation. 

Before you can become an activist, you must first become a contemplative; otherwise you’ll just be a re-activist. 💜/

BZ