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A perennial saw pastors love to buzz is how in our modern age, we face such a deluge of constant stimuli, we never have quiet time with God.  Indeed, we sometimes seek out noise to distract ourselves from God.

The pastors are right.  There is so much noise—audible, of course, but also visual—that it’s easy to go an entire day without much quiet time at all.  I often fall into the trap of flipping mindlessly through my phone in bed instead of reading a book, or cranking up a podcast the moment I wake up.

I think the problem of constant, buzzing, inane noise is more than a spiritual one, even if that is chiefly what it is (after all, aren’t most problems, at least beyond the merely technical ones, ultimately spiritual?).  It certainly distracts us from keeping our spiritual “ears” open to God’s still, small voice, but it also prevents us simply from thinking.

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