Conversations with God – interacting with the Word – The Bible as a Friend
Prayer is the most iconic and quintessential conversation with God that people are aware of. It is profoundly important to our well being of body soul and spirit. However, listening and reading the word is also of vast importance. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God – John 1:1 a verse from the Bible, John the apostle introducing Jesus to us as “the word” in the Book of John.
When I listen to the Bible I’m interacting with Elohim. I believe I am anyways. It’s a tangible experience for me. I may not notice it right away but as soon as I put it on pause to do another task I feel as if I have unplugged a friend. Like I have just hung up the phone or left a gathering. It’s a tangible disconnect in my awareness of connection.
It doesn’t all leave, I feel the presence, but it is a tangible notice of forefront communication. Much like when we are talking with our sibling or parents, then they go in another room or turn their attention in the same room to another task. It’s a form of disconnect but not a pulling away. That is what it is like for me when I read or especially listen to the bible. I listen to it a lot. Day and night often. A wonderful companion.
I generally have my headphones in or have it on speaker phone in a pouch I hang from my waist and are milling about my day to day chores and tasks. Oddly I don’t prefer doing tasks with friends, but prefer one on one focused conversation, but I thoroughly enjoy doing my tasks with the audio bible. I like that sense of closeness that lingers.
Morning Writing
Wed April 16 2025
Sylvia Fox Bevan
PS Different Audio versions have different narrators, I like different ones for night vs day, and also dramatized with different actors can help me remember which person (Deborah or King David for example) is in which book(s) by recalling the actor’s voice that portrays them. Helps keep the main characters memorable.
