Echoes

"Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth."
Job 37:2

Webster defines the word "echo" as "the repeating of a sound by reflection of sound waves from a surface".  I guess I always thought of an echo as something you experienced on a hill side or in a canyon.  But as we walked the other morning, a dog began to bark at us and his bark echoed off the wall of a nearby brick building, making it seem that we were being fussed at from two sides at once.  I was both surprised and amused.  

After I thought about it a while, I realized that you and I can be the "surfaces" that "reflect" the love of God to those around us.  Even for those people we have trouble loving on our own, we can "echo" Gods' love to them.  A sound wave doesn't damage the wall which reflects it, and we wouldn't be any worse off for letting God "reflect" off us to those hard to love people.  It may not always be easy, but it will be worth the effort.  After all, hopefully, our hearts are much more tender than a brick wall.  So we should be willing to be used in this way.

My prayer for today:  Father, use me to "echo" Your love to those around me.