Tim Knipp 1 Kings Change in the Desert

God uses the desert as a pivot point,

Abraham, the children of Israel,  Elijah

Jesus, Paul 

Us?

Without comfort without resources

Within a stirring, a ripple for change

Our choice

Plans for profit, fame, distraction

Or His shining dream 

Shimmering in the desert heat

requiring a shedding of the old

His dream for us is calling

Let go and bloom.

 

Tim Knipp - Silence (1 Kings 19:8-13)

Missing the kernel
of peace,
I swirl from
chaos to turbulence
and ricochet
off urgency.
Seeking solitude
is my instinct
yet I am 
sucked into 
the whirlpool of cacophony
and drown.

God is in the whisper,
the background
of silence,
thin and quavering -
strong as steel thread.

Listen for it.

Wait for it.

Breathe with it.

Embrace silence.

Be present
as you await
His presence.

Moses, Elijah,
and Jesus
waited for God
in solitude.

Like fractious infants
we fight
the stillness
we crave.
Imagine
His Father hand
patting us patiently,
nudging us
closer to
the sanctuary
of thinnest silence.

Tim Knipp - Silence- 1 Kings 19:8

In the stillness You are there...