Noiseless

Last week I was in Franklin Nebraska on a farm. I was playing Disc Golf with Caleb Bislow, and my ears started to feel pressure. I couldn't figure out why. I got a little freaked out, wondering if vertigo was going to set in, an eardrum was going to pop, or something else medically tragic.

Then it dawned on me.

When we weren't talking, it was dead silent out there.

No Electronics pumping out Music, TV, Movies, or Talk Radio.
No Office noise like voices chattering in the next room.
No humming of a computer, keyboard typing, or halogen lights buzzing.
No Farm equipment running.

Noiseless.

I didn't like it at first. It was eerily quiet. Then my body started slowing down a little bit. I realized how much noise has been going on in my life over the past 6 weeks. There was the Audible noise like the things mentioned above, but it has also been the noise of projects, thoughts, questions, reviewing conversations, confrontations, etc.

As I soaked in noiseless, I began to catch a glimpse of God in the beauty around me, and I believe I also caught His gentle whisper saying, "You need more noiseless, buddy."

I needed noiseless on Monday afternoon last week. I need noiseless a little more often. It reminds me what's important. It also reminds me that I'm not as important as I sometimes think I am.

God's really big, and it blows me away how often I find him in the silence.

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.

I Kings 19:11b-12