One Quiet Moment

Every so often you may have an “Eli­jah Moment” — a time when you sense a re-empowering by the Divine. It will come after you have given up. Your soul is empty. There is not an ounce of spir­i­tual energy left. The small­est task seems over­whelm­ing. All you want to do is run away and hide. You doubt your own choices and won­der if every­one con­sid­ers you a fool.

Like Eli­jah, you have expended a great deal of energy in the right direc­tion, but it seems that you have been inef­fec­tive. For some it has to do with fin­ish­ing a degree or even just a semes­ter; oth­ers feel this after the last child has left home; some­times is comes sev­eral years into a new job or after fight­ing a long-term health problem.

The great events no longer seem to inspire you. The thun­der­ing nat­ural signs of God’s power — earth­quakes and storms — cease to hold your atten­tion. The thrill of Dis­ney­land is gone. All you want is one quiet moment and the whis­per that lets you know that God still cares. It is the sub­tle mir­a­cle of a word from a car­ing friend that Deity may use. Look­ing into the sky is not as reveal­ing as lis­ten­ing to a child. God is more likely to be beside us and within us than approach­ing in some apoc­a­lyp­tic event.

Some­where in the hel­ter skel­ter of this day that quiet moment will reveal itself. The energy will then be there to pick up the next tool, to go to the next task, to hit the next key, and to take on the next load. Just let one quiet moment find you and you are almost home.