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Whisper

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  When was the last time you just sat and thought about absolutely nothing? When was the last time you walked outside, enjoyed a cool breeze, dipped your toes in cool water? When was the last time you just stopped and listened? Too long? Not enough hours in the day?  Psalm 46:10a says, "Be still and know that I am God:" And in 1Kings 19:11-12, Elijah is told to hide himself in the cleft of a rock. There was a great wind, an earthquake, and then a fire. After all of these, a still, small voice. We are so distracted in these times, that hearing that still small voice is difficult at best. Drowned out by fears, anxiety, television, radio, electronics, doing , that even if we heard it, we wouldn't be able to discern it from everything else.  We have, as a general rule, a cacophony of voices vying for our attention every minute of every day, and sometimes in our sleep. Unless we are deliberate in taking time each day, we will miss those sweet whispers, that feeling of peace ev