It was a sweet moment early one morning before we started our lessons, or even before we ate breakfast... it was while we were sitting on the couch(es) "waking up" and talking-- me and the children :) We were all still a little 'drowsy', the living room windows were up... and in the distance was the beautiful sound of a dove <3 I LOVE birds and the sounds and songs of birds~ I'm always pointing it out to my children (always have, since they were very young)... and I thought *I* was the only one that heard it that morning, and as I was lost in my thoughts {quietly smiling to myself at the 'coo' of the little dove}... my youngest son said, "Did you hear that dove, Mommy?" :) That's something a lot of people would miss, not even hear or notice-- but Cameron's ear has been "trained to hear" what others don't. [I've heard it's the same musically, but I haven't got an ear to hear music the way musicians can-- so I don't know]
That morning reminded me of another incident that happened awhile back... My family was driving down the road on a beautiful day with the windows down and the radio on and different children singing, talking, and laughing-- wind blowing and traffic passing; a LOT of "noise"! :D Yet, in the midst of all of that going on... my ear caught the song of a Meadowlark from a field we were passing <3 The song of a Meadowlark is one of my FAVORITE bird 'songs'! :) I pointed it out and asked if anyone heard it... NOPE, not a one (who could have?? in all that noise!) but *I* HAD :) I wasn't even "trying". I wasn't even expecting it or waiting for it or looking for it... I just HEARD it. My ears are "trained" to hear it :) It sang... and I heard :) Among everything else going on... I heard. When no one else did, I heard. When it "spoke"... I heard. :)
From these two examples, it may sound like I put too much silly emphasis on 'hearing birds' :D But it's what I could see "IN" these two examples that I'm really talking about... not just hearing birds. It's the "hearing", it's the being "tuned in"... not to birds, but to what is important. I want to have an ear to hear YHWH. I want to be tuned in to HIS Spirit. To HEAR and OBEY, learn, and be blessed. When others can't or don't or won't... I WANT TO. When there's too much going on in "life"... I want to HEAR. When there is excitement, commotion, or noise... I want to HEAR. When it's still, small, or "in the distance"... I want to HEAR. I want to be "tuned in"... I want my ear to be TRAINED to HEAR :) I want to hear YHWH :)