Do you ever stand among the trees and listen to the leaves sway? I mean, really listen to the quiet where the only sound is the subtle movement of green around you?
Maybe you live in the city where all you hear are blaring car horns or roaring bus engines. Or maybe you call the suburbs home where voices of children playing in the street and barking dogs interrupt your thoughts. If you live in the country, the quiet is obviously easier to encounter.
No matter where you live, trees move and leaves dance with the slightest wind. Here at EuroCamp, where our campground sits more than a mile from the closest village road, the quiet is a welcome visitor from our loud, busy lives back in the States. A place where distractions like cell phones and the Internet don’t jostle for our affections.
Next time you have the chance, stand near a large tree (preferably where it’s quiet) and listen. With the help of a slight wind, the tree leaves will begin to swish back and forth, back and forth.
Those quiet moments of movements remind me that God stirs. He’s a stirrer of hearts, reminding believers that He’s still moving and working even when it may not seem so. He stirs the hearts of nonbelievers, subtly whispering that He’s there, just waiting for them to hear His beckoning. God often speaks in a gentle whisper (1 Kings 19).
We believe God is stirring here and fervently pray that EuroCamp attendees don’t miss the sound. Oswald Chambers wrote, “The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze—so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowship with God, you will never hear it.”
Come and listen. Do you hear Him?
