Day 11 Becoming Best Friends with God

What makes a great friendship? To me, it is one in which you feel free and at ease to share and one in which you love to listen - it all centers around two way communication. I have a dear friend who is one of the best listeners I know - she always seems to know the right thing to say and gives you her undivided attention when she is listening. She makes you feel like what you are saying is the most interesting thing she's ever heard and that there is no where on earth she'd rather be than right there listening to what you are saying. Her visual, verbal and vocal cues are all tuned in on you. She asks lots of questions to get you to talk more and if she gets interrupted, she comes right back to where you left off. She makes it so easy to talk to her and as such she probably gets more info than she wants! But, she is so easy to talk to and she always reminds me how important it is to be a good listener and I try to repay her with the same listening skills but never feel like I can do her justice. At the same time, I love to listen to her - I look forward to the next time we get to catch up, and even though it is often weeks in between talking to each to other, we always just pick up right where we left off. She is probably the closest thing I have to a sister and is one of my best friends.

I used to have a hard time understanding how people could have a relationship, in the traditional sense, with God (who is an "omnipotent, invisible & perfect God"). For a long time, praying felt one sided to me and just something I did in the evenings before I went to bed, usually a memorized prayer out of habit. I felt like in order to converse with God, I had to be alone with Him at a set aside time in the still and quiet or at church. Slowly, I began to realize, out of necessity, that this was not enough. I am growing every day and starting to have a constant conversation with God as I become aware of him in every aspect of my life and I feel His presence. I am working on changing my attitude so that those things I would normally do for myself, I begin doing for God. I find myself having a hard time waiting to share something exciting with God and craving time to be in His Word and letting him speak to me! I just hope that I can be as good a listener to Him as He is to me!