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Recently I had the opportunity to go for a 5 mile run alone.\u00a0 I always pray when I run and after I finished telling God about what was happening in my life and asking for all of His guidance, I started to think maybe I should just listen to what God has to say to me.\u00a0 Well as you can tell by all the entries of my blog I have lots to say and have a hard time just listening.\u00a0 I can listen during conversations, lectures and people speaking but listening for a voice that is not audible… not so easy.\u00a0 However, I decided not to put my earphones from my IPod in my ears and instead run in silence.\u00a0 No talking to God, trying not to think about my schedule, trying not to question life or to think of new ideas for material.\u00a0 I would think those things out my system, so I did.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then after 10 minutes of trying to clear my mind I tried to just concentrate on the sounds that surrounded me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My footfalls echoed on the wet street as I passed an open field crickets chirped in unison, birds singing to each other up on a wire.\u00a0 A\u00a0misty rain landed upon me, refreshing, light and breezy.\u00a0 The soft sound far off from the cars passing across the splattered streets.\u00a0 All the sounds separate yet together a humming noise.\u00a0 Noticing sounds and sites I never witnessed before on this running route I knew by heart or\u00a0 I thought I did until I ran it in the silence.\u00a0 The footfalls became more labor intensive as I noticed exactly how my body moved and I felt a little bored no one talking to me, I was not talking to anyone else.\u00a0 No music, no thoughts yet so much to soak in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0I was able to “meditate” in a state of silence for all of 12 minutes before I thought I can’t take it anymore.\u00a0 I put on my earphones and listened to Gypsy by Suzane Vega aahh.\u00a0 No longer alone in isolation.\u00a0 Yet isolated from the rest of the world in the music blocking the world about me out.<\/p>\n
It was a great experiment for me.\u00a0 I learned that I could turn my thoughts off, I never thought that was even possible.\u00a0 Experiencing a peace that released the tension of schedules, needs, wants and responsibilities.\u00a0 Totally new and fresh was running in silence more aware of every creature and sound about me.\u00a0 I did not hear God’s voice speaking to me or did I?<\/p>\n
Did I hear God’s voice in the nature as He blew the wind and mist softly upon me.\u00a0 Did I hear God’s voice in the sounds of the crickets and the birds songs?\u00a0 Did I hear God’s voice or just feel His comfort as He wrapped me in His embrace and I felt all my thoughts and\u00a0worries release from me and His peace filled me.\u00a0 Did I feel God’s voice as He said “Recognize me in this silence, in this run, in your life and forget not that I am always here.”\u00a0 It was not an audible voice but I heard Him.<\/p>\n
Find a time that you too can try to meditate in the silence.\u00a0 Not indoors, find a field around your house or at a park.\u00a0 Go alone.\u00a0 Walk a path or just through the woods first you must talk out all the things in your head, with moms that can take 30 minutes even if you don’t say it out loud.\u00a0 Talk out everything you can possibly think of.\u00a0 Then ready yourself for silence. It helps to repeat something for awhile “I will stay silent and listen” over and over again until you can actually do it.\u00a0 Then listen to all the sounds about you, try not to name them all but just hear them and take them in, purely listen without thinking so hard.\u00a0 Breathe in the air, feel your feet beneath you and just be.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Try it you will find an unbelievable peace and a closeness to God you would not think possible.\u00a0 I challenge you find a time in the next 2 days to do it.\u00a0 Let yourself go and listen God will speak to you, His voice will not be as you expect it but He will be known to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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