Seems like I haven't made videos in a thousand years and so because of that, I don't

know how to speak to the camera.

Oh, but good, good day.

I'm my name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascentry Presents.

So I was talking with one of our students recently and his experience was I go to pray and

it feels like I don't hear anything.

Like it feels like I just, I'm talking to the wall, talking to the ceiling, it feels like

God never says anything to me.

There's a lot of ways we could look at this.

I'm just going to have a kind of a two-step thing here.

Number one is, what am I looking for and what am I listening for?

That's number one, right?

What am I looking for?

What am I listening for?

Because sometimes we have that sense of like, gosh, it seems like God doesn't speak to me. Seems like God doesn't say anything. He doesn't reveal himself to me. He doesn't show himself to me. And in those moments, I have to say, okay, pause, what am I listening

for and what am I looking for? Because if I'm looking for God to speak to me in the way that

I want him to speak to me, then yes, to reveal himself to me in a way that I wanted

to reveal himself to me, most likely, nine times out of ten, he's not going to reveal himself

to me in that way. But there are so many ways that God does speak to us. I mean, for example,

I was driving as a summer was coming up, and it's just gorgeous. It was one of those clear

mornings where you could see the lake, you could see the sunrise, you could see just like the colors. I look at that and I see God's fingerprints. He's the one

who made it all. And so to be able to see his fingerprints there is just, it's just natural. No, I want

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