I’m trying to turn off the noise, control the use of media, not just social media. Stop listening to podcasts and music every spare minute. Trying to drive my commute in silence a couple of days. Could there be something that I need to hear? Something so quiet yet profound but it’s getting lost in the din of my habit of wrapping my mind up in the chatter of information?
I have this compulsion to take every opportunity to learn, to take in more information so that I might get better at music or business or life. So, that means listening to podcasts and watching videos or reading blogposts (Lol). I have enough devices and sources to be doing that all the time. Can the effort to seek knowledge become mindless? Am I even giving myself time to mentally digest the input? When I was involved in church worship ministry I would listen interminably to music to find great songs or to learn what I was going to be using for a Sunday service. But I wasn’t making much of an effort to be still and listen. I can imagine God asking, “How can you hear me?”. I know, I know. He can make himself be heard. But what about my heart? What about my attitude? Am I waiting? Am I listening? “Today, if you hear his voice…”