They Plopped the Baby

Ear to the Ground

Theology in the Trenches

by Kathleen Kjolhaug

 

We live close in these here parts. We hear the world’s pulse as it beats. Open spaces provide clear headedness. No blockage of view makes one’s vision clear.  

Inspiration comes through perspiration because if we don’t do it, no one does, and so we do. Interdependency creates community. Out of necessity, we lean on one another.

Close attention to our own back yards brings forth fruit as the edges touch the world at large. Oh…distance may seem cumbersome at times, but truth is we’re just hours away from the next ship sailing or flight out. Buttons clicked allow us to go wherever hearts are called…but most oft we stay, pray, and hold the world in our hearts cause we have an ear to the ground.

Storms approach; we offer hope as knees bend and heads bow. Winds do not only blow but tides change among nations. We know these things…we can hear. We are steeped in truth as wisdom presents itself in His word. Those who dare shout it down know not. They cannot. We press on.  Mighty in throngs we need not be, for He alone is mighty. We can hear with an ear to the ground and we listen.

We listen for approaching hoof beats…we know the sound well…at least we think we do. The dust is rising but it’s not from the anything seen before. The recognizable tones within those approaching beats begin to sooth…for He says, “Fear not.” And so with ear to the ground we listen... “Leaning not unto our own understanding” Prov. 3:6).

With ear to the ground, we hear, “Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindred of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen” (Rev. 1:7).

With ear to the ground, we hear, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last”(Rev. 1:10-11).

With ear to the ground, we hear, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith…” (Rev. 2:11).

With ear to the ground, we hear, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith…” (Rev. 2:17).

With ear to the ground, we hear, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith…” (Rev. 2:29).  Amen.