Say What? I Can't Hear You!

How exhilirating to know that there is Someone much bigger than you or I who can handle everything. Maybe that's why Psalm 46:10 says, Be still and know that I am GOD!
Could it be that in stillness, solitude, even silence, the answers we need come to us? Could this be when we take our eyes off of ourselves with all of our worrying and toiling and thinking and just stop and rest in the omnipotent, omniscient Creator?
Lately, my prayer time has become one of silence. No words, no requests, sometimes even no praise or worship, just silence so that I can hear. Sometimes He speaks and sometimes He doesn't and that's ok. This is very different for me having come from a place where I was taught that I had to move God's hands through prayer, praise and worship. I didn't know what it meant to be still before God. I didn't know what it meant to just chill out and see what God was doing.
Now, don't get me wrong, I believe there is much power in praise. Praise is often the very thing needed to lift us up out of ourselves and remind us Who is on the throne. But at the same time, there is power in stillness.
One life saving skill I learned as a preschool teacher was that if you needed to get the attention of a classroom of noisy children, the key was not to yell or try and raise your voice over theirs, but to speak softly so that they automatically had to quiet down in order to hear what you were saying.
I wonder if God knew this all along. The louder we get, the quieter He becomes until it finally (hopefully) dawns on us to be still and attune our ears.
Here's to you, happy quiet!