Voices We Hear

Voices are everywhere.

I remember the first time Lew and I met face-to-face. We met online and had spent several months emailing, then graduated to phone calls. We were purposeful in getting to know each other–in a non-threatening way. I learned a valuable lesson on recognizing the voices we hear.

Once we decided it was time to meet up, we chose a public place. A small college campus.

Romantic, right?

We each had to drive over an hour to make it to our tête-à-tête. I remember praying as I crossed the miles. Once we met, we talked for hours. It went easy … like we’d been friends forever.

I climbed in the car and began my ride home. As I crossed the miles I thanked God for blessing me with such a wonderful meeting. Then I heard it.

“Never see him again.”

What? I was shocked. I questioned God. “Why Father? We prayed together and read scripture together. He even gave me a Strong Concordance, Lord. But if you don’t want me to see him again, then I’ll let him know.”

“Whose voice did you hear?”

As soon as I offered my prayer, I was nudged. “Whose voice did you hear?”

Jesus heard dark voices too

In Matthew 4:1-11 we read how Satan tempted Jesus. But Jesus, though weary, focused on His father and His words. Three times Satan tried to divert his focus, but Jesus stood firm.

And we must, too.

Just because we hear a voice doesn’t mean it’s from a good source. Why would we think our lives would be easier than the Son of God?

When voices come … and they will … check who you are hearing.

 

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Ladies of the Fire brought us to the late 1960s as we met the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she fled Lincoln, Nebraska, with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and what she could get her hands on at the family bank, she left the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind. Exhausted from driving all night, she stopped in Applegate, Ohio, and decided to start a new life on Norwood Street. There, she met Fiona Kasey, an African-American no-nonsense housekeeper/companion to an elderly white woman, and Sugar Bowersox, a Southern spitfire who has lost herself in motherhood.

Together, they enjoyed Lily-Rose’s backyard fire pit, where dreams were spoken and secrets revealed. As they embraced a kinship they never would have sought, Lily-Rose began thinking her past could finally be laid to rest—until someone ended up dead.

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