A Norvell Note
April 6, 2025 – Vol. 29 No. 14
Words Don’t Come Easy
As you might imagine, I think about words often. I regularly pray, “Lord, give me words.” When I preached full-time, I would say, “Lord, speak to me, then speak through me.” Most of the time, words come, but sometimes not so effortlessly.
Words don’t come easy when explaining why you must explain why you must move to another city.
Words don’t come easy when your daughter comes home with a broken heart.
Words don’t come easy when your son’s hero falls off the pedestal.
Words don’t come easy when the doctor says your child has cancer.
Words don’t come easy when your son gets a rejection letter from the college of his dreams.
Words don’t come easy when your fiancé says he has changed his mind about marrying you.
Words don’t come easy when you thought the job was in the bag, but it wasn’t.
Words don’t come easy when your mother gets sick and you become the primary caregiver.
Words don’t come easy when the word dementia enters the conversation.
Words don’t come easy when you sit beside a husband as he says goodbye to his wife of sixty years.
Sometimes words don’t come easy. In those times, we can trust that the Spirit of God knows us and understands what is in our hearts.
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people by the will of God.” (Romans 8:26,27, NIV)
Lord, give me words.
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