Loud, aren’t most of them? The voices, I mean. You know the ones: on the television, radio, coming from the cars as they race by. Loud. Anxious. Troublesome. Wrought with that numbing demand that we must have more. Do more. Be more.
Perhaps it’s time to fall back to those softer voices. The ones that reassure us, calm us, remind us that we can, that more is not necessarily better. That enough is enough. That God is in His heaven. That we can be at peace. Should be at peace. Should cast away that nagging tug that drives us to…what?
Here’s my wish for you: be calm. Ignore the noise. It’s much more O.K. than you imagine. Believing those things is a choice. Which one will you make?