The Still Small Voice

It’s a blessing that believers both welcome and dread – that still, small voice that whispers in the ear or blazes in the heart – a sense of call too urgent and demanding to resist.  Hearing the voice of God speaking to us can be comforting and disturbing, challenging and disorienting.  It can bring a sense of deep calm or profound unease.  It can turn our lives upside down, or confirm the path on which we are already set.  We may respond with fear and trembling, with dig-in-the-heels resistance, with overwhelming gratitude – or maybe with a mix of all those emotions and more.