silence.

Voices shouting. Cell phones beeping. Brothers fighting. Vacuums roaring. Dogs barking. Doors slamming. Teachers demanind. Bells ringing. Music blaring. Alarms buzzing. Faucets running. Engines starting Stoves sizzling. Toilets flushing. Washers/dryers rumbling. Televisions piercing. Fans blowing. Noice. It's ALL around us. And sometimes, we don't even realize it. We wake up to it and fall asleep to it. When was the last time you sat in complete silence? I couldn't tell you the last for me. I say I can't hear God, and I've finally found out why. My life is a noise mixed in with everyone else's noise. It's like my life is an Ipod stuck on shuffle with an infinite amount of songs. Some noises may be peaceful, classical music but others are hardcore screamo. Hundreds of noises running through my head day after day. It's so hard to be silent. It's so hard to isolate ourselves from societies 'Ipod.' But we must. We must spend time in solitude with God, for he may be speaking to us, but all we're doing is zoning him out with our earphones.