O.K., so i haven't been very faithful to my blog lately, but i definitely need to throw this one out there into the blogosphere!
If you read my last post this will make much more sense to you, but anyway, my mother has been in the hospital for 2 months and three days, most of it in ICU, and I haven't actually spoken to her since just after Thanksgiving...but today, I got to hear her voice through the telephone!
So Troy, what's the big deal? you ask...(even if you didn't, I'm giving it to you.)
The sound of another human being's voice - especially one you have a particularly deep connection with, is an amazing thing.
It's like hearing from an old friend you haven't talked with in years...just the sound of their voice elicits a torrential rush of emotions that connects with specific memories and occasions in your mind like spring rain as it splatters on the sidewalk.
This particular voice has a deep connection in my psyche. It is the very first voice I ever heard.
Hearing her voice, gives me that sense that everything is going to be o.k.
Like the time I was trying to learn to ride a bicycle and went careening off the road and landed deep in a tangle of blackberry vines...
Everything is going to be o.k.
Some of you are wondering when I'm going to turn this in a spiritual direction, so lest I disappoint you...
As much as I draw comfort from the sound of my mother's voice - there is another voice that I long to hear even more desperately than hers.
Even more desperately than the sound of my wife's voice, or my children...
The voice I want to hear more than anything, the voice that has been more consistent that the spring rain, or constant in it's delivery of comfort, is the voice of my God.
You see, the voice of my mother is just confirmation of what God has been saying all along. "it's going to be o.k."
I hope you have people in your life from whom you can draw comfort and care.
However, I have much greater hope that the voice that stills the palpitations of your heart when cataclysmic events touch your life is the voice of God.
Because truly, His voice is the first one we ever hear...and the only one that can guarantee, everything is going to be o.k.
