WHEN LIGHTNING STRUCK NEAR OUR HOUSE
FELLING A TREE
COSTING ME TEN YEARS OF GROWTH
WHICH I CAN ILL AFFORD
MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS
WHAT’S GOD TRYING TO SAY TO ME
IN ANOTHER LIFE
I WAS PROBABLY AN AUSPEX
OR SHAMAN
I SEE THINGS
WHERE THERE IS NOTHING
BUT GOD DOESN’T SPEAK IN THUNDER
BUT IN WHISPERS
AS HE DID TO SAMUEL
WHO WAS APPRENTICED TO ELI
WHEN BOTH WERE SLEEPING
HASHEM CAME
CALLING
SAMUEL
HE RAN TO ELI
YOU CALLED
NO
GO BACK TO SLEEP
ONCE MORE DID HASHEM CALL
ONCE MORE DID SAMUEL RUN TO ELI
ONCE MORE DID ELI SAY
GO BACK TO BED
I DID NOT CALL
BUT HASHEM WOULD NOT GO AWAY
BUT CALLED AGAIN
SAMUEL
BUT THIS TIME ELI SAID
ASK THE VOICE WHAT IT WANTS
THAT YOU ARE LISTENING
THE VOICE SAID
I WILL DO A GREAT THING IN ISRAEL
SUCH THAT THOSE WHO HEAR ABOUT IT
SHALL FEEL TINGLING IN THEIR EAR
WHEN ELI ASKED
WHAT DID THE VOICE SAY
SAMUEL WAS RELUCTANT
FOR THE JUDGMENT WAS AGAINST ELI
AND HIS SONS
THEY WERE PRIESTS
WHO WERE COMMITTING SACRILEGE
ELI KNEW BUT DID NOTHING
THEY WERE PRIESTS
WHO WERE COMMITTING SACRILEGE
ELI KNEW BUT DID NOTHING
ELI SAID TO HIM
TELL ME ALL
GOOD AND BAD
FOR GOD HAS SPOKEN
AND IT CAME TO PASS
MESSAGES FROM GOD
OFTEN ASK US TO DO THINGS
WE WOULD RATHER NOT DO
LIKE TELLING HIS PSEUDO FATHER
BAD NEWS
BUT GOD DOESN’T SPEAK IN THUNDER
BUT IN WHISPERS
LIKE A LULLABY
SUNG TO SLEEPY CHILD
THE SURFACE OF A POND
DISTURBED
BY A LIGHT BREEZE
OR AN
AHA
MOMENT
IN THE QUIET OF OUR HEARTS
WE LISTEN AND RESPOND
BUT WE MUST BE QUIET
TO HEAR
MAY IT COME TO PASS
FRANK A VOLLMER
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