I’m sitting in a (finally) quiet house, but my mind feels noisy. What noisy input is always available to us today: The internet is noisy, opinions are noisy, the news is noisy, expectations are noisy…ideals are noisy. There is so much that seems so wrong with the nations, so unsettling about the future, so burdensome about the Body of Christ, so weighty in the details of daily life…so noisy amidst our sin-wrecked world. Some of us are deafened in the chaos of worry, of fear, of anger, of unforgiveness, and sometimes in the noise of self-condemnation. It’s so noisy that we are tempted to despair. We are tempted to think too little on the work of Christ and too much on our own abilities to solve life’s problems or failure to overcome them.  But this is what we hear when we listen to the only voice that matters and look to […]