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Written by Brian Morykon, a contemporary writer.

God has no interest in joining the world’s shouting contest to get our attention. God waits with a whisper. A whisper is intimate, a cupped hand against a trusted ear. It only works when the distance between speaker and listener collapses into contact. Maybe that’s why a whisper is God’s preferred tone of voice: because God wants us close. Perhaps “hearing the whisper of God” sounds abstract, vaporous, mystical. I suppose in some way it is. But I bet you’ve experienced it, some moment where you’ve sat in quiet and nothing has happened but something has shifted. Maybe you don’t even notice the shift until later, when your soul feels sturdier than usual under similar circumstances.  Or perhaps you’ve sensed in silence a thought that rings with the authority of truth—weighty and light and clear: the whisper of God. Hearing the Quiet Voice requires a time of quiet to hear it. The ability for silence and solitude depends largely on the season of life. Parents of young kids might have five minutes. Retirees might have five days. I trust that if you make the time appropriate to your season to sit with God in silence, to lean the ear of your heart close to God’s lips, that amidst all the noise of competing thoughts, whether you realize it in the moment or not, God’s whisper will restore your soul. 

And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power? [Job 26:14]