If The Phone Doesn't Ring It's Me

Jimmy Buffett songs have some of the best lyrics...

Lots of new friends with the same old problems
Open your eyes you might see
If our lives were that simple
We'd live in the past
If the phone doesn't ring
It's me

Each night my wife and I lay with our daughter and say the Lord's Prayer together. It has become a ritual for us, and afterwards we bring up any concerns to lift up in prayer. As we said Amen tonight, my daughter said, "Wait, I have to push send. OK, now God received it." As if our prayer was an email. Then she asked, " I wonder what kind of phone God has. I wish I could text him. That would be so cool."

All night I have thought about her remark and how sweet and yet brilliant it was. However, we can text and phone God, it's called prayer, and it doesn't require the newest model of the iphone to do it. Too many times we try to solve our problems ourselves and forget to pick up the "phone" and send a call or text to God. God knows what we need, but maybe He is just waiting for us to put our egos aside and ask for help.

If the phone doesn't ring
You'll know that it's me
I'll be out in the eye of the storm
If the phone doesn't ring
You know that I'll be
Where someone can make me feel warm

I have seen what the power of prayer can do. Yet even for me, I still forget to pick up the "phone". Far too often, God's phone doesn't ring, and it's me.

If it takes all the future
We'll live through the past
If the phone doesn't ring
It's me

Putting God's number on speed dial is... on this cowboys mind




(Jimmy Buffett: If The Phone Doesn't Ring It's Me)