Finding Your Conversation

Your life boils down to a conversation that started at birth, and carries on until the day it is over, or until you decide you can carry it no further. For most of us, this conversation is like water: trickling at times, gushing at others, and when it's really cold, freezing up like a frozen pond in the midst of a deep artic winter. This conversation, flowing in all directions, always finds its way back to what matters; like why you suffer so about your shortcomings, or why you think you are so unworthy of God's love. Like all conversations, your conversation must involve both talking and listening. Always there must be another, even if it's an imagined other, for the conversation to take place. Find your conversation— the one in your deepest place. Tune in to the words. Listen first, and once you've plugged in, ask the hard questions: those whose answers you fear the most.