Find a place where you and your family can sit quietly for five or ten minutes. Spend that time just listening. Listen to as many sounds as you can around you. What do you hear? Is there a car going by? Do you hear the refrigerator running? Is your family pet making noise? Do you hear your own heart beating? How many different sounds can you hear? Count them! Isn't it funny how there are lots of sounds around us that we don't even notice unless we really pay attention to them? Jesus' voice can be like that-it's always there, we just need to concentrate to hear it. We need to make sure that we are listening. What Jesus has to tell us is special because He loves us so much. Jesus most often speaks to us in our heart. Just as we need to be quiet to hear our own heart beat, so we need to be quiet to hear Jesus' voice in our heart.
Take one idea from today's Gospel reading or homily to implement during the coming week.