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God speaks to us today from the clouds. “This is my beloved Son… listen to Him.”  We need to listen to Jesus as if our very life depended on it, for this is where our life comes from. When we are on an airplane and everything is going well, most of us ignore the safety instructions before the flight, but when the plane starts bouncing around and the little masks drop, you better believe we all wished we had paid more attention. The same is true of our lives. When all is going well for us, we show up on Sundays and let the Word pass through our heads. Instead of saying with our whole heart, “Speak, Lord, your servant is listening,” we say with our pre-occupied minds,“Speak, Lord, and your servant will think it over.”  But when life begins to get rough, we start praying and asking God for help, for peace, for the joy we once thought we had. Jesus is speaking to us every day, in His Word, in scenes of violence from the Middle East, in the face of the homeless person we meet or in the stories of a close friend. He is telling us that He gave His life so that all of His children can live in the kingdom of joy and peace today, right now, if only we will turn away from ourselves and turn to Him. He speaks to us to tell us to let go of the crosses we create for ourselves, whether it’s turning 50 or 70, whether it’s the love of possessions or love of power; turn from these burdens we place on ourselves and embrace the joy and peace of feeling absolutely loved, not for what we look like or what we have, but because we are children of a loving God full of mercy and forgiveness. Take time this Lent to listen to Him. He speaks everywhere, but we are so wound up in ourselves we rarely hear. Come into His presence in the Blessed Sacrament and spend some quiet time with Him.  Train your ear to listen for His voice and perhaps you will find you can learn to hear Him all day long as He says with each heartbeat, “Love you.”