A Little Conversation

The last "C key" to the Better Part is conversation. Now that may sound a little strange to you. What does conversation have to do with quiet time? But our relationship with God is supposed to be an intimate, loving relationship, and what relationship can thrive without dialogue-good, honest, back-and-forth communication? A few years back I looked at my relationship with God and realized that my quiet-time communication style involved a series of monologues with very little dialogue. But that changed when I began to read the Bible as God's love letter to me. I started to hear his own voice calling out to me in the pages of Scripture, and I began to respond to it from my own heart. Instead of the two or three chapter of Bible reading I'd tried to cram in before, I read smaller portions this time, usually one chapter. Instead of simply reading a passage, I'd meditate on it, underlining important verses as I went. My prayer life, too, took on fresh life. No longer was I presenting God with my wish list and some suggestions about how I thought he should handle it. I was conversing with God-both talking and listening. Consistency. Creativity. Conversation. I can't tell you how much these three Cs have done to help me keep my life centered in Christ. Most important, my capacity for God really is bigger. More eager than ever to choose the Better Part....to be filled with the full measure of God, to be centered and established in Christ. (From:Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World)