Listening

Are you listening?

What have you been hearing during these first few days of lent? Is your body or spirit groaning for something that you have chosen to leave behind for this season?

I have been listening - with my ears, my heart, my spirit - to the crys of the children around me at my school. Many of them are so upset that she doesn't like her anymore or the whole class makes fun of them or he punched him on the playground. I listen to their longing to be loved, cared for and valued for who they truly are.

Isn't that what we all want?

What are you hearing about how God wants to love you, care for you and show you how valuable you are?

Are you listening?