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Off.  Turn it off.

Noise.  Noise.  Noise.  I wish I had more of it, don’t you?  More technological noise to distract my hands.  More entertainment noise to distract my mind.   More digital noise to distract my ears.  More visual noise to distract my eyes.  That’s what we need…more noise.

Or not.  With an increase in our cultural noise, I strangely find myself longing for…something.  How about you?  Until recently, I wasn’t sure what it was that I was longing for.  But, I think I’ve discovered it.  I long for more…SILENCE.

Shhh.  Stop talking to me.
Shhh.  Stop selling me.
Shhh.  Stop bombarding me.
Shhh.  Stop convincing me.
Shhh.  Stop ‘billboarding’ me.
Shhh.  Stop advertising to me.
Shhh.  Stop seducing me.
Shhh.  Stop distracting me.

I have a Savior to love.  I have a family to love.  I have a soul to protect.

I can’t continue to drift from one noise source to another, and fully protect my soul.

In our “CRAVE” series, we are discovering ancient pathways that lead us to our true desires, our true cravings.   Maybe you’ve not been able to articulate it…but I’ll bet you crave for SILENCE just like me.   But…then we face reality and that fleeting thought disappears as quick as it came.  It just can’t happen.  Not in the twenty first century.  Not with my hectic schedule.  Not with my life.  I guess that dream is for someone else, who lives somewhere else and can hire professionals to filter their noise.

What if what we crave for could be a reality?  Interested?

The spiritual disciplines of Silence & Solitude are lost arts, but they are the gateway to personal and spiritual renewal.

Ignore them and you can expect to be perpetually overwhelmed….frenzied.
Pay attention to them and you can expect to find renewal.

Let’s get started this week.  Find OR force 30 minutes of uninterrupted space into your schedule this week where you can be alone and free of noise.  See what happens.

In addition to the sermon on this subject, here are some resources you may find helpful on your journey of escape from the NOISE.