Sights and Sounds
Linda Soller | Apr 28, 2025
What are you waiting for? You pray to God and ask Him to watch over something or someone. Maybe you express your concern about a person, or situation. Then you wait for Him to answer. So, what are you expecting? Maybe you think there will be a burning bush, or thunderous voice from rolling dark clouds, or a soft whisper in the night. Maybe the sights and sounds you are waiting for are the wrong ones. Maybe God will speak to you in another way.
Recently the county “messed” (my word) with a creek and the surrounding woods near our home. I was totally stressed out and powerless. What will happen to Myrtle our mother snapping turtle and her many children? Was one of the huge old-growth trees they chopped down the home of our Barred Owl? Where did our mother fox go to have her young if not to the previously undisturbed creek bank? One day I stopped my car to ask a person from the Wetlands team about the turtles. He apologized that he didn’t know about any turtles at this site. I prayed that God would take care of the displaced creatures who had no say in the disruption of their home. Last Monday night as I turned off the light to go to sleep, I heard the Barred Owl. The familiar sound as he/she marked her territory. It was music to my ears. I smiled and thanked God. On Thursday morning I thought of the mother fox who I’d seen in winter, before the creek work started, resting in our backyard. I had been praying that she would find a sanctuary. That morning, while standing in my kitchen filling my bird feeder, I glanced to the side yard and saw the mother fox and one juvenile making their way into the deeper woods. They had survived, thank you Lord. No sign of Myrtle, but I am hopeful.
God may not appear to us in a burning bush, or flash of light. God is more than capable of communicating through everyday sights and sounds that we all too often take for granted. When the sights and sounds around you bring you comfort, peace, joy, don’t forget to say thank you!
Be strong in the Lord and be kind!
Linda
