Purposeful Living

While I was pregnant with my son, the scriptures in the Old Testament, that recant the story of Hannah and her son Samuel impacted me very deeply. Hannah covenanted with the Lord, if He removed her inability to have children, and blessed her with a son, she would give that son to Him. She consecrated the life of her son to the service of the Lord. Samuel was blessed, because of his mother's faithfulness, to be sensitive to the Lord's voice even as a young boy. He heard the Lord calling him and was quick to respond.

Link to my life: When I strive to consecrate my life, my day to day living, my thoughts and actions to following Jesus Christ I am blessed with increased sensitivity. I become more sensitive to hear the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. I am more sensitive to notice the needs of those around me, more sensitively quick to patience, more sensitive to find joy in my surroundings. Sigh. This ideal of heightened sensitivity to the Holy Spirit is not a constant quality I possess. I fail A LOT. Here is the true LINK from ideal to my life.....the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Each day, I beg for forgiveness as I lay my head down, each morning I pray for the opportunity and desire to show Christ-like attributes.

I want to be a mother like Hannah, for so many reasons. One is so I can have the sensitivity she instilled in her son. The ability to hear the whisper of God, even when life is roaring around me.

When my son snuggles himself in between John and I, with a look of complete happiness and innocence on his face, I hear that whisper, the call of a loving Father in heaven.....calling me, urging me, telling me He loves me like that...times infinity.

Can you hear the Whisper today?

"And it came to pass when they heard this voice, and beheld that it was not a voice of thunder, neither was it a voice of a great tumultuous noise, but behold, it was a still voice of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it did pierce even to the very soul..." Helaman 5:30