The Mute Speak

Tomorrow is my interview on blog radio. I am not a speaker. I am a writer. Thus, I am a little nervous. Ok, I lied. I am a lot nervous. What if I suddenly am struck mute? That happens when I get nervous. Suddenly all the wonderful vocabulary I used to be able to toss out with aplomb vanishes and I am reduced to grunts and tortured groans.

Once again, the book of Isaiah comforts me. It is true I may well be silenced by own stumbling fears...but it will not be forever. There is a day when the blind will see, the deaf will hear, and the mute will sing for joy. I will just focus on that.....
If you want to listen in and see if I can indeed string 2 words together, the web address is and I will be on
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cwa-radio/2012/05/07/grace-caf#.T6RBfqrHNIo.mailto
from 11-noon, EST, Monday May 7. Gulp.

Isaiah 35:3-10
Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts,
"Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you." Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer,
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness;
it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean will not journey on it;
wicked fools will not go about on it. No lion will be there,
nor any ravenous beast;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there, and those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

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