Author: Lisa Bellamy

I'm a former print journalist whose day job is "financial health." That's corporate-speak for helping people understand and maximize their employee benefits. It is not a job for the faint-hearted. I've been married to the same awesome IT guy for 30+ years and am the insanely proud mom of three beautiful and brainy young adults – a poet, an Army man and a scholar/athlete. Insanely proud because medically I should not have children. Even after fertility surgery, I remained barren until some church ladies, who were in the habit of praying Mondays at noon, asked God to give us children. My children are my reminder that God still answers prayer and performs miracles. I'm a Christ follower who seeks to live where faith meets life. Join me on the journey.* * I began blogging more than a decade ago under the title "Walking Across Egypt," now re-branded as BringFaith2Life. My mission is to do everyday life in a way that reflects faith in Jesus Christ. Faith has to work in the real world of annoying neighbors, angry bosses, ungrateful children, overloaded schedules, stubborn wills and sudden bills and responsibilities that come out of nowhere. If faith doesn't work where I live, it's not worth exporting. "The just shall live by faith." Habakkuk 2:4b 

Leave the World Behind

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The world is a very loud place.

Everywhere:

the barking of dogs

the humming of engines

the passing of cars

the sound of voices, music.

Always, the incessant rush of the world.

Wordsworth wrote:

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!”

Today, I chose to step out of the noise and into the woods.

This is the sound of silence

If the noise is seeping into your soul, you too can make a conscious choice to step away.

I invite you – challenge you – as a Christ follower or seeker to get alone somewhere where the sound of man is muted.

Listen to the voice of the Prince of Peace, the lover of your soul. Hear His invitation, maybe for the first time, saying:

“Arise, my darling; My beautiful one, come away with me!” Song of Solomon 2:10 (NET)