HEAR THE VOICES
John of Arc, the peasant girl from Lorraine, became the heroine of France by following what she called “voices” which came to her from God. In Bernard Shaw’s play “Saint Joan” one of the officers asks, “How do you mean, voices?” The maid replies, “I hear voices telling me what to do, They come from God.” Later in the play the weakling King Charles exclaims, “Oh, your voices. Your voices. Why don’t the voices come to me? I am the king, not you.” Joan answers, “They do come to you; but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for them. …but if you prayed with your heart, and listened… you would hear the voices as well as I do.” It is so with every one of us. The voices do come to us when we open our ears to them. God speaks and seeks us. But we are too busy or skeptical…
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