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Have you ever heard God? I’m not talking about whether you’ve heard God in a soft stillness, like the prophet Elijah, or as a voice from a burning bush, like Moses.
I mean, have you ever made a choice that warmed your heart because you knew it was God who led you to it? This is what has been happening to me since I arrived in Iraq in March 2006, as part of a Maine Army National Guard unit.
The setting is more fitting than I could ever have imagined. Only minutes from the center of our base are the ruins of the ancient city of Ur. Dominating the flat landscape is a ziggurat built at the end of the third millennium b.c. This is a massive, pyramid-like structure with stairways on three sides.
The Bible connects Ur with Abraham, our great ancestor in faith. This is not where he was living when God told him to go “to a land that I will show you”—by then, his father, Terah,…
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Hello I am David Simmons. It has been over three years since this article appeared in the “Word Among Us”. Since then my unit has deployed again, I have been graced with the sacrement of confirmation, reconciliation and marriage all during the month of June this year. It has been a long journey since that Easter in 2006, but so was Abrahams to the promised land. Both journeys are on-going also. Thanks to all who have read my article.