A Deeper Silence

A part of learning to listen for the Voice of God involves learning how to create silence in our lives.  Not only is it important to create a silent place, but it is also necessary to learn how to stay in that place where the silence prevails.  Given our propensity for noise, it is something which takes some amount of practice for most of us.  When we manage to enter into the silence, it is at first so uncomfortable that all we want to do is look at the clock to see if we can justify movement back into the world full of sounds and noise.

 

Getting comfortable with the silence will enable us to be in it without being conscious that all the frenzied sounds are missing.  Comfortable means not really thinking about the fact that we are in a quiet place filled only with the silence.  Comfortable means that the silence being experienced is being experienced as something that feels more natural than abnormal.  The silence we seek is not just the absence of external sounds, but a silence that permeates the inner being where the sub-conscious part of us prevails.  It is also the place within where the Holy Spirit is making Himself known in our spirit.

 

It is in such silence that the Voice of God is often heard.  Often heard is the operative word because no matter what we do, or how we position ourselves, there are no guarantees.  The place we seek to be is the place where expectations are gone.  Nothing is required or demanded.  We are simply present, empty and open, eager to hear whatever it is that might come whether it be a Word from God, or simply a deeper silence.