Thank you for: silence

It has been snowing the past few days at camp and it is beautiful! Yesterday evening I was helping feed the horses before heading down to dinner and as we were letting them out for the night it started to snow. It was so peaceful and....quiet. Snow seems to do that. It put a blanket of silence over camp. As I watched the horses eat their hay I felt the silence surround me but not in a bad way. It seemed to wrap me in its blanket to keep me warm. 
We are constantly surrounded by sound. It is hard to find silence and sometimes when it corners us we run from it. I have run from the silence the past few weeks. How I run is through distractions by television, internet, books,  movies, music, work, people or anything else that keeps my mind busy. Silence means thinking and there are times I am scared of my thoughts or afraid of what God is trying to tell me through the silence. So, yes, lately I have been running from God. I think it is because He is trying to teach me something to help me grow but in the process I know it is going to be painful...so I run.

As the silence engulfed me yesterday, I felt a sense of peace. Yes, I am scared of silence and scared of the unknown but through it all I know God has been there for me through it all. Things change, people change and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Hayley sent this quote to me the other morning:
 "The steps of the believer are steeped in constant change. Fingers are painfully peeled away from the security of sameness, one at a time, again and again. Great wisdom lies in freeing our fellow sojourners....cherished though they are. With hands freshly loosened, we find liberty to embrace the One who will never change and courage to release to Him those who ever will."~ Beth Moore
Through the silence God speaks to me, so although I run and hide I am thankful for the silence reminding me that although I am scared and change is going to happen...God will never change or leave.