Today I will listen for the voice of God. Even before I started my day, I was challenged to clear my head of my own voice and the voices of others from my head. If prayer is communication with God, then we would do well to remember that communication is always two-way conversion. Sometimes we do all the talking and fail to listen to what God is saying to us. If a person talks to you but never listens to what you have to say, the conversation is one-sided, and you will probably lose interest after a while. When you are talking to someone and they are as interested in what you have to say as you are in what they have to say, you have a mutually beneficial and engaging conversation.
It is easy to say words to God and then walk away without waiting for a response. But who has the time to wait for an answer? Who has the patience to wait for God to speak? While I have experienced the great peace and joy that comes from being in a conversation with God, I have also experienced the distractions, frustrations, and roadblocks to getting there. Just as we wait for a torrential rain to stop before going out into bad weather, we must wait for the noise in our atmosphere, internal and external, to quiet so that we can hear and speak to God. If we are going to reach our greatest level of success, we must discipline ourselves, and structure our time, to have daily conversations with God.