The Fog of Morning?

My eldest daughter Kassie has a Blog, http://ketchumsblock.blogspot.com/ , where she shares many of her feelings and thoughts. Her latest post entitled 'Controlled Abandon' is perhaps one of her best. In it she shares about having been awakened early in the morning, much like Samuel in the old testament, having felt a touch and heard a voice calling out her name.

Of course, there was no one there. No one to touch her or to speak her name, and yet, she surly felt a touch and heard her name called out. Many of us, who call our selves Believers, have had similar experiences, times where, in unexpected ways, God gets our attention. And, just like Samuel, we too are slow to recognize what is really happening. We are slow in understanding, that it is God himself, who is endeavoring to get our attention.

Is it the fog of morning, waking suddenly or just the confusion of a mind not yet engaged that makes us so slow with recognition? Why does it take three or four attempts on His part to get our attention? Is something wrong with me?

I am more and more convinced, almost daily, that my problem with recognizing His voice quickly has more to do with the continual over stimulation of my senses, minute upon minute, hour after hour, day upon day, to where I just am unable to discern Him calling out my name. How much do you tune out every day? What do you allow in? What do you block out?

I am very cognizant of the lack of quiet time in my life. My goal for the next few weeks, is to see if I can recover some time in my day, to just be quiet. Perhaps then I will be a little faster in recognizing God’s voice when he calls out my name.