Finding Your Voice
Finding Your Voice....
Hi friends and welcome back!
This post kinda came out of nowhere but I figured it was also a little too funny to pass up. Sunday, two days after I wrote this first post, I came down with Laryngitis....and haven't been able to do much more than squeak and squawk over the last few days... not really fun.. especially when you have a very busy job like I do that requires talking to a lot of people all day long. Work has been a BLAST this week, let me tell you!
Not being able to talk much has caused me to reevaluate all of my non verbal cues and communication, especially at home with my husband. Lucky for me he's really good at reading my body language and hand gestures. He gets a kick out of me, a very talkative person, not being able to talk. It's been pretty funny at Casa de Murdy this week. In between the laughing at what motions I was coming up with for 'hungry', 'hey look at this,' and a lot of other random things, the quietness has definitely allowed me to do more thinking and reflection than I normally would.
Silence can be a great thing or a scary thing, sometimes it can be both. In my case this week the silence got me thinking about communication and how important it is. And now difficult it can be when you don't have actual words to say. Being silent for 3 days has been hard, frustrating and very irritating. It's been most irritating at work when I need to speak at meetings or on a conference call and people either laugh at my ridiculous sounding voice or ask me to speak up because they can't hear me (sometimes completely in jest).
It got me thinking about Moses and his speech impediment, how he said to God in Exodus 4:10 (English Standard Version), "Oh my LORD, I am not eloquent, with things past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue." And I love God's response. "Then the LORD said to him, 'Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?" I always chuckle a little at that, imagining God yelling all these rhetorical questions at Moses, Moses knowing full well that the answer to every single question is God. My speech issue is temporary, but I related a little to Moses in that way, in that he was afraid. I wasn't afraid per say but very nervous and hesitate to speak up at work this week, mostly trying to save my voice. But I did feel useless, unproductive and not able to contribute like I was used to. It makes me wonder if Moses felt that way sometimes? Not wanting to draw attention to himself because of that, just like I didn't want to this week.
But the best part of all of that is, God doesn't care. God uses us exactly as we are because he designed us to be that way. He uses the most ordinary people to do the most extraordinary things. Moses, you and I included. So in my silence this week I find myself talking to God a little more, and it's a beautiful thing. Maybe not talking all the time isn't such a bad thing? Maybe silence helps you find your voice after all. God gave Moses a voice in Aaron, verse 15 says, "You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do."
God gave Moses a voice and used him to do incredible things. I don't know what he's going to do with this laryngitis,(hopefully heal it!) but it led me to this post!
So my friends, I leave you with a question; how do you see God using you in your daily life? It doesn't have to be huge like saving a nation like Moses did, it can be small, like me, writing a blog post, or something else.
Leave a comment!
~Just the Musings of the 20s :)
Lauren Murdy
*All quotes from The Holy Bible are in ESV unless otherwise stated.
Hi friends and welcome back!
This post kinda came out of nowhere but I figured it was also a little too funny to pass up. Sunday, two days after I wrote this first post, I came down with Laryngitis....and haven't been able to do much more than squeak and squawk over the last few days... not really fun.. especially when you have a very busy job like I do that requires talking to a lot of people all day long. Work has been a BLAST this week, let me tell you!
Not being able to talk much has caused me to reevaluate all of my non verbal cues and communication, especially at home with my husband. Lucky for me he's really good at reading my body language and hand gestures. He gets a kick out of me, a very talkative person, not being able to talk. It's been pretty funny at Casa de Murdy this week. In between the laughing at what motions I was coming up with for 'hungry', 'hey look at this,' and a lot of other random things, the quietness has definitely allowed me to do more thinking and reflection than I normally would.
Silence can be a great thing or a scary thing, sometimes it can be both. In my case this week the silence got me thinking about communication and how important it is. And now difficult it can be when you don't have actual words to say. Being silent for 3 days has been hard, frustrating and very irritating. It's been most irritating at work when I need to speak at meetings or on a conference call and people either laugh at my ridiculous sounding voice or ask me to speak up because they can't hear me (sometimes completely in jest).
It got me thinking about Moses and his speech impediment, how he said to God in Exodus 4:10 (English Standard Version), "Oh my LORD, I am not eloquent, with things past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue." And I love God's response. "Then the LORD said to him, 'Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?" I always chuckle a little at that, imagining God yelling all these rhetorical questions at Moses, Moses knowing full well that the answer to every single question is God. My speech issue is temporary, but I related a little to Moses in that way, in that he was afraid. I wasn't afraid per say but very nervous and hesitate to speak up at work this week, mostly trying to save my voice. But I did feel useless, unproductive and not able to contribute like I was used to. It makes me wonder if Moses felt that way sometimes? Not wanting to draw attention to himself because of that, just like I didn't want to this week.
But the best part of all of that is, God doesn't care. God uses us exactly as we are because he designed us to be that way. He uses the most ordinary people to do the most extraordinary things. Moses, you and I included. So in my silence this week I find myself talking to God a little more, and it's a beautiful thing. Maybe not talking all the time isn't such a bad thing? Maybe silence helps you find your voice after all. God gave Moses a voice in Aaron, verse 15 says, "You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do."
God gave Moses a voice and used him to do incredible things. I don't know what he's going to do with this laryngitis,(hopefully heal it!) but it led me to this post!
So my friends, I leave you with a question; how do you see God using you in your daily life? It doesn't have to be huge like saving a nation like Moses did, it can be small, like me, writing a blog post, or something else.
Leave a comment!
~Just the Musings of the 20s :)
Lauren Murdy
*All quotes from The Holy Bible are in ESV unless otherwise stated.
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