My dear reader, God is indeed speaking to me. This powerful message He is giving me happened for the 5th time tonight! Once again, Jesus is speaking to me through the Bible. I was praying the Rosary by listening to it on CD, curled up on my bed in blankets, my Bible open before me.It was not the first page my fingers randomly opened to. It was the third. Perhaps only because of my ignorance, the first page I opened to did not seem to have anything relevant to me. But, as my eyes focused upon the text of the second page, I realized that I had happily found myself again in the Book of Isaiah, and--as I read the following from Chapter 37--they felt strangely familiar to me:
Have you not heard?
Long ago, I prepared it.
From days of old, I planned it.
Now I have brought it to pass.
Become like the plants of the field,
Like the green growth.
I am aware whether you stand or sit;
I know whether you come or go.
Had I not read these passages before? Was my beloved verse not close by? I eagerly flipped to the next subsequent page, and sure enough, there it was for me:
This shall be a sign for you:
This year you shall eat the aftergrowth,
Next year, what grows of itself
But in the third year, sow and reap,
Plant vineyards and eat their fruit!
I love that my little verse ends in a joyful exclamation mark! But what does it all mean? And how should I apply this to my life? I meet with my new spiritual director (a wonderful Redemptorist priest named Father John) this coming Wednesday, and I am hoping he will shed some light on it for me.
I fell asleep shortly after encountering the verse, and my Rosary CD played on. Later, when I woke up, I noticed that my Rosary had again folded itself into a little heart. :-)
