Help me to listen – really listen. I have been asking for so long; seeking Your way in my life every day; praying for the answers. So lately, I have been trying to listen for Your answers – and failing.

All I hear is noise – car engines revving, birds chirping outside my window, helicopters and planes flying overhead, dogs barking, people laughing – and the voices in my mind, swinging me wildly about the cavernous room that is my brain; trying to figure it all out – this relationship, that job, this dream, that mistake, this mood, that trial. I try to listen for You, but all this noise blocks me from You.

Help me to listen, God – really listen. It has become painfully obvious to me that I cannot listen for You on my own willpower. I need You to help me hear You. I need You to help me open to You.

Help me to listen, God – really listen – and really hear You, only You.

Amen.