Blog 403 – 09.12.2016

There are so many competing voices that it is no wonder that we are often confused as to who to believe, who to trust, whose advise to follow. I think there is a truer voice to listen to and before you think I am trying to lay some religion on you let me say plainly the most reliable and trustworthy voice for you to listen to is your own voice.

All the while you are reading or listening to other voices listen for that amen within, that agreement of your heart and mind to what is being read or said. Without that those other voices are just static and should be regarded as such.

One book renowned and respected by many says, “You will hear a voice saying this is the way, walk in it.” There was an interesting movie in the early nineteen fifties called “The Next Voice You Hear.” That phrase was a popular way of introducing the next guest or program on radio. The premise of the movie was that God had something important to say and was going to use the radio to do it and there by cut out all the middle men who and I am being kind often garble the message.

On radio and TV often a famous trusted voice is used to convince you to buy a product, service, donate your time and or money to support a worthy cause, or to support a political candidate, sports team, or religious preacher or group. But there is a more reliable and trustworthy voice that the Universe chooses to speak through to us. No impersonator can fool you for long. You can easily recognize “the sweetest voice in the wide world”, your own.

In that book I quoted from earlier one of its most inspiring teachers says, “My sheep know my voice and follow me. They will not follow a stranger.” Many people today think talking to your self is a sign of insanity but I think listening to all those strange voices will have you acting a lot crazier. Apart from all his funny recordings Ray Stevens recorded an album in the nineteen seventies called Turn Your Radio On from the title song. One of the songs on that same album says, “I think its just about time to have a little talk with myself.”  A comedian defending his habit of talking to himself said, “Sometimes you have to talk to yourself in order to find some intelligent conversation.” Did I hear an Amen?

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White