Listen and Live

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Nov 8, 2022 · 3m

If you listen, you can hear it: the wind moving branches of trees long dead, these creaking bones that ache to live again. You hear it in the weary words of a mother at the store, comforting her crying child. You hear it in words unspoken in the eyes of the man holding a cardboard sign on the side of the road. You hear it in the undercurrent of sharp voices and the wound of words too hastily spewed. All this need, all this thirst. If you slow, you can hear it in your own heart: the beat of the broken. You can hide behind a smile; you can gloss over it with your busy or a facade of bravery…