ECHOES of NOW: listen.

(This post was written to the first song on the playlist to the left. Please click the play button if you'd like music while you're reading.)

A whisper...a song...a violin bow gently pulled across strings that willingly give up the notes whose burden they carry. Away like light across the surface of the sea....Be still. And you are. The whisper.....gently it comes, echoing through every corner, every bend, every dip, every hollow of your heart. Be still. And you are. Yet, the words....you try to grasp them, you strain to hear the words of a song that you know you've heard before. Stop. There. Almost. Not quite. Listen.

A breeze wraps itself around you, the quiet is deep, the Voice is there. Can you hear? Be still. Like a song written for your soul alone. Like a melody you know as sure as you've known anything in your life, it plays. For you. You know this Voice, this song, this whisper in the stillness. Though you may have pushed it away, never listening, turning from all you were made for, still, in the deepest well of your beating heart, you recognize this Voice. And every fiber of your being responds to the Voice of the one who wrought you in the untold depths before another person had seen your face, heard your voice, spoke your name. There, in the heart He imagined, in the soul He painted as a master artist paints a picture on white canvas, He held the brush that swept and spun, twisting and turning, creating His masterpiece. And your soul, your heart, all that you are was painted into a canvas of living, breathing color that reflects the Hand who wields the brush of your life.

Be still, oh child of God. For He loves you with a love untold. You are the living vision of a God who is calling unto the heart and soul He created. Can you hear? Can you feel the living God whisper your name? With each sunset that alights the clouds on fire, with every note of every song that has touched the deepest part of your being, with each tear falling from the weeping clouds above, this is His whisper, His call, His hand gently turning the face He created to gaze into the deepest eyes of Love Untold. No matter where you go, no matter how far you run, He is there, in every breeze that kisses your face, in every wave that crashes and echoes upon every shore of every coast throughout the universe and beyond.

A whisper.....there.

Listen, oh child of God. For He has loved you with an everlasting love, it never fails, and it will endure throughout the ages of this world and into eternity. Look into the face of your God and know. Know that to live is to know who He is. To be fulfilled is to reach out and take what He has already given.

For the world in which you live echoes every beat of His heart for you.