In his poem “It Couldn’t Be Done” Edgar A. Guest writes, in part, the following:

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;

At least no one ever has done it;”

But he took off his coat and he took off his hat

And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,

Without any doubting or quiddit,

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

It is a wonderful thing to tackle a task others deemed impossible-and do it!

It is, in fact, a wonderful thing to know the task set before us to tackle in the first place. Which brings us to the question of the day: What is it that God would have us do?

I rather like the idea of opening the morning paper or scanning the news on my computer and there it is: An insert from God, with my instructions for the day. Since this is not to be….knowing what God would have us do: is it as simple and as difficult as listening? Listening “with the ear of our hearts?”