The Song of God

 Heart Nebula

I will hear Your voice and I will hear all harmonies You have created, singing Your hymns.

New Seeds

 Listening for the song of God is another way of talking about discernment.   A life of spiritual discernment is a life lived with one’s ear to the sky and one’s heart open to surprise.

Merton invites us to consider the Gospel of the universal sound of God’s voice, which echoes through the creation as song and as silence.

Each hum, each melody, has something of the Divine within it.  If my heart is tuned to God’s harmonies then I will vibrate with God’s tones as a tuning fork when struck causes a string to vibrate.  Both are tuned to the same pitch.  It is called sympathetic vibration.

We are already tuned to the sound of God’s voice and we

 will be able to hear God when we are quiet within.  That hymn is being sung within you right now.

 

Contemplative prayer begins to lead us into the deeply quiet interior of the heart, but it is only a beginning.

It is important to remember that just as God is the author of the hymns sung by the universe, God is also the author of our prayer and our silence.

When we keep our lives filled with other sounds, it is hard to hear the Divine voice.

We may not be able to find a completely silent place in our daily lives.  We need to cultivate the silence within, so that we will carry that silent sanctuary wherever we go.

The silent heart is natural to us.  We were created to leave space for God and to respond to the sound of God’s voice.

This is why many of us, once we have tasted contemplative prayer, yearn for more. 

And more is within you.  God yearns for you with a deeper longing than you can imagine.

Open yourself to silence—the natural silence that was born in you at your creation.

And then-

Listen for the hymn of God.

Blessings,

Debra