God Tapping

Tap tap on my ankle.

I looked down and saw my two-year-old nephew.

Tap tap on my knee.

I looked down and saw my four-year-old niece.

Tap tap on my hip.

I looked down and saw my six-year-old nephew.

Tap tap on my shoulder.

I looked down and saw my nine-year-old niece.

It’s not that the children can’t talk. They can chatter away with the best of them. But calling to me to get my attention will literally fall on deaf ears.

Once I am looking at the children, they speak, and I read their lips.

I sometimes get it wrong, and we have some giggles when I mis-lipread, but generally I do understand them. If I am looking at them: otherwise, I have no chance.

This experience of living as a deaf person mirrors my experience as a devotional writer.

The phrase ‘to tap into something’ means to establish a connection.

The children establish a connection with me by tapping.

And so does God.

As I live in His Presence, holding my writing before Him, I find He draws my attention to Himself in every day.

He taps me, ‘Look at Me.’

I’m here.

This Deaf Awareness Week, I encourage us to be aware of God Tapping.

Showing us Himself in everything.

Reminding us that He is with us.

Establishing a connection.

Where will you see Him today?

By Emily Owen

Emily is passionate about communication, regularly teaching on the topic to students at university, secondary, and primary level.  Her passion has grown from her own story when, as a teenager, she was diagnosed with the neurological condition NF2-Schwannomatosis (NF2), eventually losing her hearing overnight, aged 21.

She’s undergone multiple surgeries - an on-going battle - in between which she’s written a dozen books and spoken at many events. she enjoys speaking to groups, both Christian and secular, be they big groups, small groups, one-to-one, covering such topics as ‘Living Life to the Full’, ‘Faith’, ‘Disability’, ‘Communication’, ‘Her Personal Story’, ‘‘Deaf Awareness’…anything you like really. (Though probably not astrophysics!)