NO-NOISE November.....PLEASE, just be quiet!
Sounds of Silence?
It might be said that many of us who are isolating more than others would be surrounded by silence, not bothered by the incessant voices of others. Ah, but the isolation of quarantine has driven us (among other things!) to an almost constant existence on our electronic devices. Instead of one or two human voices with whom we interact one-to-one in our normal environment, we are surrounded by a sea of voices, weaving in and out of the static. Don't you ever just wish the voices would shut up?
Friends or Foes
Social media can be an entertaining and useful connection to people from the timelines of our lives. Especially during a quarantine-type situation, it can be a nice diversion for an afternoon or evening. But, when it gets to the point that everyone is just reposting the same posts, do you ever find yourself blaming people for wasting your time? OK, so most of us don't have a lot of important things to do, but you get the point.
"Blah, blah, blah..."
Social media is always maddening during a presidential election, but this year it has been especially antagonistic. I had already shut down my Facebook account a year or so ago because I was just worn out with the hatred OOOZING all over the place. I probably would have shut it down again right about now, but I learned what a headache it was when you come back, and you inevitably will. I am still running into people I have forgotten to add again who think I unfriended them!
BE STILL
All of the many voices dinging our phone with texts and our Facebook with messages, there is one still, small voice that often is ignored. God wants to talk to us. Psalm 46:10 says,
"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."
Are we listening?
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