What are you missing because you are too busy to notice? Stop. Right where you are. Close your eyes and listen. Can you hear the whir of the refrigerator, a siren in the distance, a bird chirping from a branch outside your window? I’ll wait. Go ahead. Now open your eyes and look up. What do you see? Billowy clouds floating across a blue sky, or cracks in the ceiling? If hurry and hustle have long defined your stance, it is possible that you have missed the awareness of God’s presence amidst your circumstances. Your inability to decipher what he is saying has caused his voice to become muffled,
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