Prayerful Pondering

                                           Ronald Carlson has released this Aizona “Sunrise” image

What you really want to know...

Go to the source and ponder

It's through study you will grow

Then continue to wonder

Reflection puts you on a path

Of prayerful pondering and thought

And gathers in conversations

Some dream dreams and in slumber are taught

For God does speak

Now one way

Then another

To those who seek

Be ready to heed

Be humble and meek

Read from His book

Study and pray

With a goal, look

He's there 

Night and day

[Verse 1] What you really want to know Go to the source and ponder It's through study you will grow Then continue to wonder Reflection puts you on a path Of prayerful pondering and thought And gathers in conversations Some dream dreams and in slumber are taught [Pre-Chorus] For God does speak Now one way Then another To those who seek Be ready to heed Be humble and meek [Chorus] Study and pray (Study and pray) Study and pray His light will stay Read from His book (From His book) He's there night and day [Verse 2] When the page feels worn and old Still the truth keeps opening You bring your questions to the throne And the silence starts unfolding A small voice comes through the night A word that steadies what you feared Then morning finds your heart awake And every step grows clear [Pre-Chorus] For God does speak Now one way Then another To those who seek Be ready to heed Be humble and meek [Chorus] Study and pray (Study and pray) Study and pray His light will stay Read from His book (From His book) He's there night and day [Bridge] Through study you will grow Through prayer you’ll learn to hear Not every answer comes at once But He is always near So keep your hands on the page And keep your heart awake What you really want to know He meets you when you pray [Final Chorus] Study and pray (Study and pray) Study and pray His light will stay Read from His book (From His book) He's there night and day

Job 33:14-18

14 For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.

15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,

16 he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,

17 to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,

18 to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.