Praying with Frank Topping

May 14, 2007 | Filed Under prayer |

How often do I nod,
as if I were listening,
to words I cannot hear,
because I’m thinking about something else,
because I’m planning what I intend to say.
Yet there are those who are good listeners:
a good conversationalist listens,
a good counsellor or adviser listens,
a good doctor listens, a good judge,
a good friend.
And you, my Lord,
you listen even to my thoughts.
Teach me to listen,
that I may hear when you speak. - Frank Topping