One of the greatest gifts I was given in my childhood in the Church was the idea that God wants to speak to me, that God could “lay” something “on our hearts” or “lead” us to a decision. That God cares about the state of our internal consciousness. And not just that, God actually moves within that consciousness to act and guide us if we learn to listen. That idea has shaped my life in ways I can’t begin to name. Sometimes I wonder if that might just be the most important thing I learned in childhood: how to recognize when the Divine was stirring something inside me, forming me, inviting me to change direction. 

What sounds complicated is actually simple enough for the ten-year-old I was. The Divine is calling, “Who will go?” And if we’re listening, we’re all invited to say, “I will.” 

Join me in thinking about divine compulsions and attention in this episode.

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