Whispers don’t have to be audible; they can be a look or an attitude or an action.

Every day, we’ve opportunity to whisper things about a larger life, with opening deeper truth which we haven’t fathomed the half of yet.

We can also influence people with whispers of judgement or cynicism or fear.

We don’t set out to do this; more likely, someone in the past has whispered these things into our lives from the way the world and their world was.

But when someone speaks judgementally we can whisper something about a hopeful future.

When something cynical is said, we can whisper we care and inquire positively.

When someone speaks out of their fear, we can dare to act courageously.

None of us set out to be judgemental, uncaring, or risk-averse.

These are the whispers we’ve allowed in.  When we step back, we know we want to live a bigger kind of life, to open our minds and hearts and wills.

We’ll need to identify those who whisper positively into our lives – wisdom is not found in what we know but in who we value.

We can also be whisperers of life in all its fullness to others.

These words from philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin caught my attention this morning:

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”*

(Quoted in Joseph Jaworski’s Source.)