Voice

Life speaks to the living. It's always available and communicating with us, seeming to arise from the depths of the heart which connects to the unseen. Once it's found and met there, nothing in the world can hold sway as it once did. What's tangible is forever paled in comparison to this invisible something underlying and permeating it all.

And it speaks. Not to the ears, but to and from beyond the invisible heart. Sometimes with feeling but often plainly and lucidly with words and images, or just intuitive knowing. It's amazing and unfathomable, but it's real. We're each perpetually connected to this, we just don't tend to notice or have space to receive because our attention is usually preoccupied with all the activity, thoughts and feelings coming and going on the surface.

This is the source of guidance, knowledge and comfort that can be found in deep prayer and meditation. Shutting out the noise and turning to God/the core of being, looking deep in the heart with sincerity and humility to the responses emerging out of silence, which share wisdom and compassion that transcend the usual limits of the individual looking quietly within.