Inspired by lyrics to “A Roaring of Noiseless Calm” by David Roth and Jan Garrett:
“There’s a thundering sound inside my heart I feel with an open palm. It’s a yearning that gives it, every part, a roaring of noiseless calm. There is something inside that I can trust, above all commotion and din. It is when I am willing to slow down and quietly go within.
It is cool and it’s constant and steady. It is life without all the distraction. It’s a pond without ripples, a sky without clouds. It is conscious and silent action.
There’s a thundering sound inside my heart I feel with an open hand. It’s a yearning that fills it, every part, right down to a grain of sand. Even where doubt has found me, I am stronger than suffering and fears. I am more than the imprint that bound me that I used to survive all these years.
There’s a thundering sound inside my heart I feel with an open palm. It’s a yearning that gives it, every part, a roaring of noiseless calm.”
Responsive Reading for July 26
“And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice” (I Kings 19:1-12 KJV).
“There’s a thundering sound inside my heart I feel with an open palm.
It’s a yearning that gives it, every part, a roaring of noiseless calm.
There is something inside that I can trust, above all commotion and din.
It is when I am willing to slow down and quietly go within.”
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof . . . . Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:1-11 KJV).
“It is cool and it’s constant and steady. It is life without all the distraction.
It’s a pond without ripples, a sky without clouds. It is conscious and silent action.”
“And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Hush, be still.’ And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm” (Matthew 4:39 NASB).
“There’s a thundering sound inside my heart I feel with an open hand.
It’s a yearning that fills it, every part, right down to a grain of sand.
Even where doubt has found me, I am stronger than suffering and fears.
I am more than the imprint that bound me that I used to survive all these years.”
“The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul” (Psalm 23:1-3 NIV).
“There’s a thundering sound inside my heart I feel with an open palm.
It’s a yearning that gives it, every part, a roaring of noiseless calm.”