By Amber Weigand-Buckley
(LH Editor)
I’ve been doing interviews for almost 30 years.
I know how to ask the questions, how to listen for the thread, how to draw a story out. What I didn’t know, or maybe what I kept too busy to practice, was how to turn that same attention toward God.
It’s only been in the last couple of years that I started what I now call my interviews with God. I sit down, get quiet, and ask one question: Lord, what do you want me to know today? No agenda. No deadline.
Just me, a legal pad and an open, prayerful heart ready to receive.
Leaning In
A week before I sat down to interview this month’s cover story subject, this was the answer I scribbled on that pad:
You don’t have to be on. You don’t need to give every piece of yourself away to be pleasing in my sight. I don’t require your exhaustion, your toil, your worry, your carrying ability. Just your love. Your time. Your obedience. Relinquish the outcome.
Then I got on a Zoom with Graciela, and she said it back to me in a completely different voice. The night before, I’d felt that same divine nudge listening to our speaker at an AWSA Connect gathering. God whispered. Truth was on repeat.
Learning to Discern
I’ll be honest, there have been seasons where I almost talked myself out of wanting to admit God speaks to us at all.
When you live with a mental health diagnosis, saying “God spoke to me” can clear a room. But I’ve learned that hearing from God isn’t about being special. It’s about being still. Being wise in discerning His voice from all the other voices in your ear. Everything He says is always confirmed in more than one way.
His Word, His people and prayer put truth in front of our faces until clarity finally breaks through.
And you realize He wasn’t being repetitive. He was being intentional. He knew how long it would take you to actually hear it.
Listening to the Whisper
This month’s cover story isn’t just a profile. It’s just another whispered answer.
An answer that hit me right where the Father has been reaching into me all along‚ in the many ways He shares His heart and direction with His children. I pray this issue of Leading Hearts finds you right where he’s been trying to reach you.
Love, Amber
