It seems I have lost my voice. My students will rejoice if I don’t get it back soon.

Even in the loss of my voice it helps me to see I don’t lose my “voice” for calling out to God. In the deepest recesses of my spirit deep still calls to deep.

The Psalm yesterday was Psalm 51. The Common English Bible words a familiar phrase a bit differently and it voices my heart a little better:

Create a clean heart for me, God;
   put a new, faithful spirit deep inside me! (Psalm 51:10, CEB)

We normally see it as “renew a right spirit.”

But in my deepest being, where truth must dwell, I need that new, faithful spirit. Only the living God can do this. And I don’t need a physical voice to ask!