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Contest Entries: "The Contest Challenge"  Participant"I Write in 2018" Participant"I Write in 2019" Participant"I Write in 2020" Participant2021: Independent Writing 2122: "I Write: Enter the Second Decade" Participant2123: "Twenty-three in Eleven " ParticipantThis mixed collection contains fiction, non-fiction, prose, and poetry. Entries vary in length from very short to one that is over 3000 words. 53 entries written in 2018: ▼ 53 entries written in 2019: ▼ 43 entries written in 2020 ▼ 2 entries written in 2021 ▼ Entries written in 2022 ▼ NOTE: All Titles with ~ ~ are either non-fiction or based on a true story. |
| Prompt: Can we communicate with God and each other? How is this possible? Robert McCloskey once said, "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." This is one of my favorite quotes about communication—and it is so true. Another favorite is a quote credited to George Bernard Shaw: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." These two quotes do reflect my own struggle to communicate with other people. Why is communication so challenging? It goes back to the Tower of Babel. You can find the story in the eleventh chapter of the book of Genesis. After the flood, men begin to build a tower. Was their intent to reach God in their own strength? Whatever their intent, God declared that as they were one people with one language, nothing would be beyond them. God's solution was to scatter them and confuse their language. So at Babel, God chose to hinder our communication with each other. In our modern world, we have such a great capability to communicate—seemingly with the whole world. Truthfully though (as my first quote hints at) even when we speak the same language, we still might not understand each other. A skill we can work on to help with that is: listening. Listening is almost a forgotten art but I can tell you this from personal experience: if you become gifted in a the rare act of listening, men will beat a path to your door. What about communicating with God? Well, God did something about that as well. He gave us His Only Begotten Son to reconcile us with Him and open the doors of communication again. He also has given us the Holy Spirit. In Paul's letter to the Romans, we learn that with His power (the power of the Holy Spirit), we can even talk to God with "groanings that can not be uttered". When we pray in the Spirit, we are praying according to the perfect will of God. If we have ears to hear God and eyes to see, we can turn to Him and say, "Heal me." and we can trust He will hear us and grant our request. (Mark 8) I believe that we can ask God to make our eyes to see and our ears to hear—and our hearts receptive to all that He has for us. I believe if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us and heal us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:9) And Romans also reminds us that Jesus makes intercession for us... Our communication with God is authored by God. He empowers us to pray. We are His Workmanship.  (Ephesians 2:10)Written for "Grill a Christian" Prompt: Can we communicate with God and each other? How is this possible? Word Count: 475 Words ~ ~ ~ JESUS is LORD! ~ ~ ~ |
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