Bucket List Item #2

"How can you understand Me with all this noise?"

That was the question asked by a speaker during a heated gathering at Gallaudet University where deaf students had begun a movement called "Deaf President Now,"  in protest to the election of a "hearing" president at their University. They wanted someone who was deaf, like them.

We all laughed when we heard her ask this out loud.  

But for me, having taken on learning sign language as a bucket list item, but also as an opportunity where I know God would teach me or show me something else, it echoed, echoed, echoed in my heart............

How can I understand God with all the noise in MY life?  became the new question that would echo, echo, echo in my heart all week............ and is still echoingggg................

But wait...........  how can I even HEAR God with all of the NOISE in my life????

I drove home in silence.  I have not turned on my radio or stereo since then.......     

I have gotten up early and gone for a morning swim by myself.............

There's just something about a morning stillness.......

The noise is gone...........

I am enjoying silence this week........    and guess what...........    

I hear Him a little bit clearer........

I love these long drives to school...............   

The noise is gone........

Talk to me, Abba...............