A whisper

The voice of God is a holy whisper. And I am learning to listen:

The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper..." (1 Kings 19:11-12)

And He was there.

We long for Beauty

Our hearts long for something greater, something MORE. I feel this ache, this yearning, frequently. It's because God created us to know HIM, to know Something greater than this world has to offer. And it is when I am in creation that I feel this yearning most strongly, because all creation proclaims God's reality. It shouts of His glory. Even if we don't acknowledge Him, creation does. And our hearts feel a whisper, an echo of something ancient and deep and holy. When I am feeling anxious and falling into patterns of focusing on myself and my own little world, I am thankful for the moments of rest God gives me in creation - where my heart is reminded of the reality of something More and my soul is drawn back to the Glory that created us all.

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands....They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

Psalm 19:1-4