Right now it is silent in my house, but truly how silent?! As the fan whirls around and makes this clicking noise, and as I type the sound of the keys clattering away. Can life ever be silent? I guess maybe if you put heavy duty ear plugs in.
I was reading a couple of my friends blogs and got to thinking about my quote unquote quiet times. Are those times really spent listening to God and being silent? Even over this past weekend, when I helped out with the Edge camping trip we talked about how it takes at least a half an hour to get the clutter out of your mind before you can be fully focused on your quiet time with God. I know lately for me my mind has been running a mile a minute with getting ready to go to school, and making sure everything is in order, and making it a point to hang out with my friends before I leave. Where does God come in all of it though? I think I have been so caught up in my life, I have been lagging, yet again, in just being in God's presence and doing His will for me. Luckily for me God gives me grace and mercy!
It is definitely hard to just stop those thoughts from flowing and just listen.
So kind of a side note from that when I was having one of my quiet times and just sitting still I had an image of a low battery needing to be recharged. For me this image is so true in my life lately. I have been on that constant go and I have not been recharged, by not having the kind of quiet times I should be. In a sense I need to plug myself back into God so I can be fully charged, because without Him I am nothing, dead in a way, no true life within me.
If I am not charged how can I spread the power?!
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