Yahweh speaks.

Is God trying to talk to me about my being stressed out about my test earlier today?

• One of my favorite songs comes on LaunchCast earlier. "Never underestimate my Jesus," it says, "when the world around yo crumbles, He will be strong."
• A half-hour later, I eat supper with John and his friend from work. This girl shares Phillippians 4:6 with me: "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God."
• Not 5 minutes after she tells me this, my dad calls on my cellphone and says: "Look, just wanted to let you know God told me to drop what I was doing and pray for you against stress and anxiety." He knew nothing...other than what God told him.

I believe. I believe God loves me. I believe I am having trouble requiting such mysterious love. Help me, Lord. I want to love You so much more. Why am I so selfish?...

"Yahweh," U2
From the album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes
And make them fit
Take this shirt
Polyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt
And make it clean, clean
Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul
And make it sing

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Take these hands
Teach them what to carry
Take these hands
Don't make a fist
Take this mouth
So quick to criticise
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up
The sun is coming up on the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, tell me now
Why the dark before the dawn?

Take this city
A city should be shining on a hill
Take this city
If it be your will
What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart
Take this heart
Take this heart
And make it break