The Strange Sound

… in my camp there are loads of sounds, beautiful, harmonious and peaceful but suddenly it became noisy, confused and agitating. I could not hear my soul, I could not hear anyone, yet there were loads of sounds. “I can’t hear anything” I cried out to my friend, “it is so noisy I want to find quietness to hear the mind of God, but the noise is booming loud from all directions” he told me “May I suggest you create that time, for the noise never ceases until we find our own quietness within it. Hard but possible”

So in the midst of the noise I detached my soul and went deep, I found my quiet place within and in that space I was able to discern and listen to each individual voice in my camp as I did the sound check , one by one their voices came to me and I ticked off as they sang their part. A voice that I have always assumed belonged in my camp started singing and it was a strange song, strange melody that came forth, my soul got agitated again and I felt the unrest. How can a familiar gong make an unfamiliar sound? I wondered. As I pondered and pondered on the matter, I decided to give the one with the strange melody a bit of space and as I did, peace and harmony was restored in my camp. Then I knew in truth there has been a stranger in my camp. The familiar was not familiar after all. The one with a strange sound had been in our midst all along. He was not singing before but the moment he started singing, we couldn’t help but notice.

The one with the strange sound does not belong with us or with you. Let him go!