As I was chatting to God this morning, and trying to listen to what He might have to say, the only thing impression I got was to go through “old” diaries from this Autumn and see what He had already said. God really seem to share my sense of humour (when relating to me, at least), and the message was delivered as if God was jokingly saying that He wouldn’t bother saying anything more until I bothered listening to what He already had said 
I totally got why, because so much has been happening over the last few months that I haven’t really had the time to digest it all. But this morning I had really been out for easy solutions, although I had been reminded about this diary re-reading earlier as well. As I got started, I suddenly spent most of the day, without having covered more than July and August, roughly. And, …surprise, surprise…; I was thrilled how much it gave me, and to have found another activity more than fit enough to keep a half-sick person away from boredom.
After a while, I also discovered a few very similar passages, written at two, three or four different occations. In each case I had been asking God some question, which I felt there and then had been answered, only to forget about it and ask the same quiestion(s) all over again some weeks later. I had to smile at myself. How many times would God need to give me the same answer(s) before I would actually listen?! It made me think that sometimes what God says, or what insights I find, really goes in one ear and out the other. It can really be a good idea to go back and remind oneself about how God has been leading in the past, in order to both see the bigger picture, and to get answers to the questions one’s asking.
Amen!