{"id":1298,"date":"2022-07-15T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellspringwords.life\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2023-01-25T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:03:35","slug":"individual-praise-vs-adding-to-the-clamor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellspringwords.life\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"Individual Praise vs. Adding to the Clamor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For a while, my youngest son hadn&#8217;t been living at home. So, every night my husband, my oldest son &amp; I called him over video chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a half hour or so of talking, catching up &amp; laughing together, we began to say our goodbyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone chimed in with, &#8220;I love you!&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Good night!&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Sweet dreams!&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Miss you!&#8221; and other such remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a>Honestly, every single time, we all talked over one another&#8211; to the point that we really couldn&#8217;t tell what he was saying, and I&#8217;m sure he couldn&#8217;t make sense of all the three of us called out.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude02\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t29\/1.5\/16\/1f602.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One morning, I was thinking about it and figuring that we needed to take more time to express ourselves individually, rather than nobody really hearing what the other was saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then it soaked into my heart. It isn&#8217;t about the individual exchanges. It&#8217;s the expression of our feelings that matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, to others it would sound like clamor; but, we always got off the video with a sense of heightened awareness of our love &amp; care for one another, always hung up with a smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe we couldn&#8217;t hear which person was saying what, or even all that was being said; but, it was a clamor that sounded like love&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard people ask, &#8220;How does God hear everyone on earth praying individually at once?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My answer is simply, &#8220;He&#8217;s God. That&#8217;s one of the miraculous things that sets Him apart from me and you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But our expressions to Him, our worship, our praises&#8230;. Although I fully know God hears us individually, how ultimately pleasing it must be to Him to hear so many of his children declaring their hearts to Him at once!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as my family expressed itself to my son in his absence, our daily praises proclaim our love for our Father residing in Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So lately, I&#8217;m finding my prayer has been to always be found&#8230;adding to the clamor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t80\/1.5\/16\/26f2.png\" alt=\"\u26f2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/brendadillon?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZVn1FkKlFD_Be7bFjhqXd9J5oHAvvKrZzVFS6bdGvUejq4-mfojRbAdJu0cn16YfkHm_ddtTDnBq_Ga0qsXRXCJK55vcldiHPFM08oscAeqgKUt7RhL_jPvUIUfRLRWx8OTKjFZy2mX28aQpQtjygVIWVoC_NEclx_nIvkqxv7MdGjIy9bzoHc3bXi6qswp3zCMiaCWIFJLI97adFfCIsV2&amp;__tn__=*NK-R\">#BrendaDillon<\/a> #ChristianBlog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, my youngest son hadn&#8217;t been living at home. 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