These thoughts have challenged and broken my heart today.  God is good.  He answers our prayers for brokeness. 

“Too many people underestimate the power of listening and prayer.  Listening to me builds trust. When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice, you have not done what is most needed and most helpful. Please listen—and pray. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel the way I feel, you have trespassed holy ground. You have not walked in my shoes. Please listen—and pray. When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problems, you have interfered in a holy process, strange as that may seem. Please listen—and pray. All I ask is that you listen. Not talk or do—just listen. When you do something for me that God and I need to do, you contribute to my fear and feelings of inadequacy. Please listen—and pray. When you accept as a simple fact that I do feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, then I can quit trying to convince you and begin to be healed by the Spirit of God. Please listen—and pray. Remember, these are holy, epiphanic moments of the soul. So please listen and just hear me. If you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn—and I’ll listen to you.—Anonymous

Lord, thank you for the trials that bring me to brokenness and press me in to You. Please give me eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to understand your ways that I might turn and be healed. Unless you do, I cannot repent in brokenness. Thank you for the gift of holy moments and healing tears that brings me to your feet in brokenness—that makes room for your grace to forgive, comfort, heal, deliver and transform me—that makes room for more of you in my life. Continue to pour out your Holy Spirit upon me that I might be free to worship and serve you in greater purity of spirit and truth. In your Name, Jesus. Amen.”