Morningstar Noise

[Natural setting experience]

Blaring sirens, boisterous people talking, hollow windows-screeching of the activity of man outside, lights everywhere, cars zooming by hastily, trash trucks banging, food distribution trucks unloading, loudness, piercing everywhere...its all too much. I can't hear myself think, I can barely get in-tune to what God has to say to me. I can barely seem Him at times. The raucous around me drains out God. I put in headphones. They help to escape from the hideous noise around me, but only temporarily-enough to hold me over in the moment.

The soft noise of birds chirping, the squeaking of tree branches as they blow in the wind, the rustle of leaves floating across the paved road, the subtle creaks the wood logs of the home make- all produce an inner stillness within me. This is the soft noise, the enjoyable noise, the noise I believe God wants us to capture in everyday life. The noise is their everyday, and even other noises join in for a harmonious tune. God entices us into nature and says "Come, listen to the sounds of my creation, listen to the sounds of the creatures and plants, trees and microorganisms that I have constructed from the beginning, sit in wonder my Beloved and listen to my encompassing love around you."

I find a dire need to shake the village and return to that inner stillness that the soft noise brings to me. To escape the grasps of everyday life and lunge for God. Knowing that He will grant me the peace and stillness I crave. That he is the all sufficient sacrifice. I need to escape to nature. To get away from this "concrete jungle" to find God more.

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