It used to be that I could be outside at night and I could hear the Pope high school drum line as they practiced. I’ve noticed over the past couple of years that I can’t hear them anymore, even though I know they are out there practicing. I came to the conclusion that they just must not be as good as they used to be and that they have fallen off of their game.

A couple of nights ago I was out in the yard and all of the sudden I could hear the drum line. I was so surprised by it that my head literally snapped up toward the school. I remember wondering where they had been all of this time and was glad to see that they were finally on their way back. Then it dawned on me – maybe the problem was with me. I wondered “when was the last time I actually spent any amount of time working in my yard with anything other than a lawn mower?” I realized that the drum line was probably there the whole time, I just had to shut out all of the noise that was preventing me from hearing the drum line.

Then it hit me harder. Maybe the reason I don’t hear God as often as I would like is because I have too much noise in my life and I haven’t put myself in a postion to hear Him.

Yeah… the problem was definitely with me.