Void

We all are so busy. We get up hit the floor with our feet and never stop until our butt hits the bed at night. We get up and we do it all over again - everyday! Life is a hurricane, a wild fire, full of wind and blowing us everywhere. We struggle to find God, to hear the voice of God and to trust our intuition. There is never any void in our life for us to listen to anything, much less the still, small voice of God.

Then he was told, "Go, stand on the mountain at attention before God. God will pass by."
A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before God, but God wasn't to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but God wasn't in the earthquake; and after the earthquake fire, but God wasn't in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper.

I Kings 19:11-12

Some of us get so afraid of the void. It is silent, there is nothing going on, it forces us to confront and think about things we have been attempting to avoid. We all say that we can't wait for the weekend, but when it comes we stay busy and avoid any silence or void. We get bored, tired, sleepy so we get busy with the television, the radio, people, food, whatever will drown out the silence. Empty spaces can be intolerable until we learn the power of silence.

We are addicted to stress, mentally and emotionally, we need a fast, quick fix to our issues. Really we need to clean our system and stop overloading it with all the noise and chemicals from our brains having to be constantly simulated. The void is where God is! God is not in the hurricane of our lives, the fires, the trials or the winds. God is in the silence between or after these things. Like that say with music - it is the space between the notes that makes the music. If there were no pauses, or space, between the notes the music would not be so beautiful.

So take time daily, weekly, to sit in silence and hear the voice of God. We need to understand our thoughts and direct them to our true purpose. The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God. Then we can live out the true purpose of our lives to make the world a better place. This spiritual work is not easy. It takes the willingness to surrender to feelings that seem, while we are in them, a defense against a greater pain. Spiritual work means that we must surrender to God in the silence and let our perceptions of all things change.

Namaste'