One who hears God’s voice is operating from the very foundation and framework of all reality, not from the fringe” (D. Willard)….. Hearing this voice requires our careful attention because our own wants, neuroses and activities as well as the people and dealings of life scream at us so loudly.  They overwhelm us with their presence…The visible world daily bludgeions us with its things and events.  They pinch, and  pull and hammer away at our bodies….But instead of shouting and shoving, the spiritual world whispers at us ever so gently. (T. Hunter)

During this advent season, may we slow, may we not get caught up in the madness of the schedule, the pull of the busyness of the holiday season, the pinch of our crowded lonliness.  May we be willing to sit, may we be willing to prepare the way for the Lord Christ, may we listen for that still small voice, and may we rest on the very foundation of reality.