It’ been a whirlwind couple of days and this morning I find myself in the peace and quiet of my office reflecting. The leaves are falling with rain drops. I was driving with my sister yesterday to do our biweekly grocery haul and she asked me “do you think this rain is God crying?”.

I think we have been distracted. We put our faith in things that are not God. We trust politics and electricity. We trust comfort and investment accounts and gas prices. We trust the news and when we don’t like it we turn it off and go to Facebook marketplace or focus on our Christmas shopping and Thanksgiving menu planning. There is so much. We have so much. We do so much.

We are creatures made to worship. What are we worshipping? God will do whatever He has to in order to get our attention and in a totally distracted world He is going to do a lot. But then again, He is always doing a lot. We just have to choose to see it. We have to choose to hear Him.

Today I am thankful that I get to choose. I can choose to take the time to see and hear what God is doing in the chaos and the quiet. God is always doing and God is always speaking.

My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. James 1:22

“Whether you turn to the right or the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.'” Isaiah 30:21