Shall I Propose?

Today Miss Kate proposes we write a post for her. The question is, after a busy day getting things for my lad as he has a camping trip to prepare, as well as celebrating my hubby’s birthday, do I have the where-with-all to rise to the challenge?  So what then, shall I propose? 

Shall I Propose?

I read a book
A history tale
in Which some young men
and women regale each with tales
of Indians, goodness, and faith
and mixed within romance
and some of the men wonder
Shall I propose?

A story runs through
my mind, where oft I live,
of boss lady and
a spoiled boy turning
man, encouragement needed,
wondering
should I propose
a change of venue
for this young man?

One considers
a change to be made
how to present
his heart’s desire to
a people unwilling
Should I propose a way
to help the unwilling hear?
Yes, one who can speak
in ways that I cannot.

And so on we live, books, imagination, and God, speaking in ways that sometimes… we have a hard time hearing.  He always finds a way, a way that leads us back to his heart, time and time again.   Listen well.

Consider, what might God be doing?  Is he proposing a new way for you to listen?  A new way for you to act, to think, to be, to do?  He sent his son after ALL the other ways of being he’d worked through.

He came as a still quiet voice, a voice raised in anger, a being seen as cloud and fire, as a ram caught in a bush and a voice staying STOP! As the one moving behind a lad sold as a slave and then saving his very own people.   If you just take a moment to stop and see, to stop and LISTEN to the God of ultimate proposals… it would blow your mind.  So take a moment, and listen.