Holy Conversations

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November 2025

Praise be Jesus Christ, now and forever.  Praise be His most holy name.  Praise Him who was, is, and is to come.  

Thank You, God, for Your constant goodness and mercy.  Thank You for all thy benefits.  Thank You for holy conversations.  Thank You for building friendships that are true and good and grounded in You.  

I am sorry, Lord, for the times I take You for granted.  I am sorry, Lord, for the busy-ness that can overwhelm me when I do not discern Your will.  I am sorry, Lord, for my forgetfulness and short sightedness.  

Two friends and myself often gather, in person or on video chat, to have holy conversations.  We share what God is doing in our lives; sometimes we include formal prayers, but sometimes we just have holy conversations.  

Holy conversations are anything but shallow — they are deep.  They challenge us to redirect our attention to God’s will and not our own.  They lead us to thanksgiving and repentance.  They are beyond beautiful. 

Recently, I was at Adoration with my youngest when an image of a covered wagon entered my imagination.  I sat with this image in my mind while sitting in the very Presence of God. I sensed these words:

A covered wagon offers transport and protection as does My Church.  It is packed with all that is needed to “get” to Heaven.  It is My Church because I am in it; it is led by the Holy Spirit; its path is designed by the Father. 

I then sensed to open my Bible to Amos 2: 13.  It reads:

So I will press you down in your place, just as a cart presses down when it is full of sheaves.

The footnote indicated that the sheaves mentioned are separated or consecrated.  

I wrote all of this in my journal thinking this was for me, for I had no prompting to share with anyone in particular.  I also knew that I would need to unpack this for a few days to discern what God was trying to teach me through the image and Scripture passage.  

Later that night, as I have done every night this year, I sat in my chair and grabbed my calendar to write what I was thankful for that day.  This calendar was gifted to me and is one that has a “page” for each date with a cute little image.  I grabbed it and my pen to write that I was grateful my daughter came to Adoration with me, and then I looked at the image with the words:

Hitch your wagon to a star. 

Wow! Another little confirmation of what I imagined and the words I sensed in the chapel that day. 

Now, I knew God was in this image and word, but was it for me?  Was it for my daughter who accompanied me? What did God want me to do with this? 

A few days later, a holy conversation with my two dear friends would reveal what God was trying to teach all of us.  As we were visiting, one friend began to ask a question, “Have you ever heard the saying, ‘Don’t upset the apple cart?’”   This led to my sharing of the image and word and scripture passage.  We brought it to prayer and asked God to reveal to us what He was communicating.  The next few days were interesting!

The image of the covered wagon morphed into one filled with apples as my mind melded my image with the saying, “Don’t upset the apple cart.”  As I was headed to Adoration the following week, I was stopped at a light in a line of vehicles, when I looked to my right and spotted a moving truck with a huge red apple on it!  I snapped a picture and sent it to my two friends asking, “What do you think God is trying to tell us?” 

I headed to Adoration and was prompted to look up Proverbs 19:2

The one who MOVES too hurriedly misses the way.

I immediately messaged my friends and told them God was warning us to SLOW DOWN! All three of us received confirmation after confirmation that He indeed was asking us to slow down, stop being distracted, throw some apples out of the cart!  Reminding us that He is driving the cart, so He is carrying our burdens.  

The next few times we met for our holy conversations, He continued to remind us of our need for moments of restoration by allowing Him to drive the cart.  I believe that the image will continue to guide us and remind us — because, let’s face it, we need the reminders — to be sure to not be too busy for the wedding feast (Luke 14).  

How do you manage your time so as to have moments of restoration to hear that still small voice of God?  What apples can you throw out the cart?  What apples are worth keeping in your cart?  Share, share, share what God is doing in your life!  You never know who needs to hear it.