Volume

Ya know how some days we just want to be right and not just right, but right at the top of our lungs! Or is this just me? I have this lovely lady God has put in my life and she reminds me, mentors me, just by how she lives in God’s whispers. I have watched her, and others, as they live IN the peace of God…as that is where ‘right’ resides. So, it got me to thinking about this human need of volume to make our points, to chime in, to proclaim our epiphany from the highest register!

Life does have a lot of it…volume, that is. So much is vying for our attentions, pushing the entrance of our souls and then allowing all kinds of commotion in the door! 

The difference was stark today. Errands, cloths to wash, more errands, floor to clean, phone calls, emails, deliveries…all before 10 in the morning! And then I stepped outside in the afternoon. The first step out the door seemed to require an extra push to get thru to the peace of the other side.

We forget that there is a world battling it out for our soul’s attention…the pushing and prying of our priorities, all with the goal of distancing us from Peace, God’s Peace ~ His whispers. 

This isn’t something that needs a special occasion to happen, it is an everyday deal. If evil can get distraction to take hold in the everyday, then we are an easy target for the no-so—wonderful occasions in life.

The Whisper today was amazing. Sweet songs of cardinals, chirps of warblers and the breeze thru the bamboo. I guess, I hope, that I will never tire of God’s limitless vocabulary of whispering! He speaks to each of us, ya know. He knows our hearts, He did make them, after all, and His whispers have just the perfect place to abide. Our hearts know His voice already….

He has formed every human heart, breathing life into every human spirit; He knows the deeds of each person, inside and out.

Psalm 33:15 ~ The Voice Version

And so, I’m going to try again to pay attention to the volume…mine, and that which comes at me. He gave us breath, He knows our volumes and they do have a purpose ~ I am thankful today that He reminds us still of His purpose in our volume.

 Hallelujah!
Praise God in His holy house of worship,
    praise Him under the open skies;
Praise Him for His acts of power,
    praise Him for His magnificent greatness;
Praise with a blast on the trumpet,
    praise by strumming soft strings;
Praise Him with castanets and dance,
    praise Him with banjo and flute;
Praise Him with cymbals and a big bass drum,
    praise Him with fiddles and mandolin.
Let every living, breathing creature praise God!
    Hallelujah!

Psalm 150:1-6