We are Ready to Listen

Healing, sovereign God,
overmatch our resistant ears
with your transforming speech.
Penetrate our jadedness and fatigue.
Touch our yearnings by your words.
Through your out-loudness, draw us closer to you.
We are ready to listen.
Amen.
-Brueggemann, 1992

Grappling with the mental transition of grad school to starting ministry work in August, I ask God to bring cohesion between what I have learned and how to make this accessible to the church. If there is lack of clarity of how higher education benefits the larger church then the church is unedified and uninstructed, and then I have failed at bringing what I have learned down to a practical level. It is the job therefore to bridge gaps and help God loving people find a sharper, keener, and more intense relationship with the sovereign Lord. I pray that I would have circumcised ears to hear, and a circumcised heart to act.