i've mentioned this pastor's site before...it's really great. you should read it regularly.
anyways, his new series focuses on "hurry" and "noise" in our lives. something that i think rings true to all our hearts, if we allow it to. our society is SO hurried and SO loud (Ipods, cell phones, blackberries, it's crazy!)
i'm always trying to simplify. for myself and for my kids. how else can we hear Him unless we have some moments to be quiet? and reflect? and let our kids talk to us? and ask us questions?
anyways, i found this quote on another blog...
Henri Nouwen said:
“In solitude, I get rid of my scaffolding; no friends to talk with, no telephone calls to make, no meetings to attend, no music to entertain, no books to distract, just me - naked, vulnerable, weak, sinful, deprived, broken - nothing. It is this nothingness that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something.”
try to find some solitude soon. He promises to meet you there. you might not like what you feel once you get there - He might show you some stuff that's hard. but we need to stop running and start listening if we're going to impact the world around us. and i think you'll find, after getting used to the quiet, that you just might like it!
4 comments:
Concentrate to the things that could give information to the people.
To the author of this blog,I appreciate your effort in this topic.
It's true - I think sometimes we hide ourselves in the "noise" of life because we're afraid of what we might hear in the quiet.
not sure what the two first comments are...
But I will check out this site. My boss here and I tried last year to just sit and praise God in our quiet times, and it was so HARD. We want to talk and tell him about our desires and read about him in the bible. But it was so hard just to sit and Praise Him...which is what they do in the bible so much. It is still hard and I am working on it... and I think what you wrote about would be equally hard I am too wired with the kids around and things to get done... ugh
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