I was surprised with a comment recently, while watching a movie about St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi. After the scene where “I wish God would speak like that to us today. Why can’t we hear God’s voice or call like that so clearly these days?” And it led me to think…
Maybe it isn’t so much of God not speaking to us that way anymore.
Maybe we have just simply become too loud.
Back in the day…
No one had cellphones. No one had wristwatches to constantly check the time. No one had iPads, iPhones, or mp3’s and earphones to drown the world out in decibels of music. And the only tablets that populated conversations were the ones God had written on.
If we would travel alone, we could reflect for hours, hearing only the sounds of God’s creation…
In a day’s journey, we spoke to one another – for weeks of a journey sometimes.
In a day’s journey, there weren’t any vehicles that would prevent us from feeling the wind or the true heat of the sun, or a radio to blast explicit words of “artists”…
The only Artist many of us would hear was God. And He didn’t swear, but speak words of Truth and Love.
But now-a-days, we have distracted ourselves with noise we have created; distractions we can choose to ignore or put aside. And unknowingly, we drown out “The Voice” that many of us have become envious (of our ancestors) of not hearing.
Maybe it isn’t so much that God isn’t calling us or speaking to us, but rather we have grown to hear our own voice more, or the voices of this earthly world. But if we take one car ride to turn off the music and/or turn down the window… or take a walk somewhere quiet to just drown ourselves out of the noise we have created, maybe… just maybe… we will hear “The Voice.”
TOTUS TUUS.