Interference

Life can get extremely busy, as I have found out the past few days. While trying to write on my blog, which helps and uplifts me spiritually, many things in my current situation continued to get in the way. Requirements from my job, information gathering for my new job, preparing for an upcoming retreat, not to mention household and family needs, left little time for writing. Thank God for prayer.
  Now I have to wonder if this busy lifestyle that we create for ourselves is the work of other forces trying to keep us from hearing God's voice. I can't help thinking back to Jeremiah on the mountain, seeking God's call. Al kinds of storms with lightning, high winds and heavy rains kept coming as he was listening for the Father's voice. But when the voice came, it was as a quiet whisper on a gentle breeze, which would have been drowned out by all those other events.
  We keep ourselves so busy, that we do not leave time to spend with God. Even we we take our hour on Sunday, it may not happen. There is always a cell phone honing off during services. We can't get away from the distractions. So what is the answer?
  The answer is to take time to shut it all down. As I look toward a retreat this week, I am looking forward to concentrating on my own spiritual well being. My wife is currently taking care of her own spiritual well being this weekend . And if you can't spare a few days? How about an evening. Pick a night, shut off the phone, the television, the radio. Even for just a few hours and read the bible. Yeah, that book that you probably have somewhere in the house. Pick a passage and think about how it relates to your life. And hear the voice in the quiet breeze.