Amplify! Turn up the sound and turn down the noise!

Let's get out into nature and away from all the background noise so we can hear loud and clear. We are listening for the love of God speaking out in all kinds of voices, not just the loud ones. We are listening for soft voices, human voices and the voice of all God's creation, new and old voices, "outsider" and "insider" voices, and even "unpopular" voices and the voiceless. We are listening for those who call out to us to give voice for and alongside them, because their voices have been silenced. All around, we see and hear God's great big love for everyone and everything. We want everyone to share in God's love, spreading the good news right to the corners and the edges, listening quietly and shouting with joy. Do you hear it yet? 

Isaiah 40: 3-5
A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it together. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”