God is shouting in whispers, but we are looking for fireworks.
The Default Mode
We are addicted to the "Grand Event." We want our spiritual lives to feel like a blockbuster movie—big emotional highs, undeniable signs, and loud revelations. If we don't feel a massive shift, we assume God is absent. We despise the small, the ordinary, and the quiet because they feel insignificant. We want the spectacle, not the stable.
The Carmelite Shift
The reality of the Incarnation is scandalously quiet. As we discussed, a baby was born in a cave, and almost no one knew. The world didn't stop turning. There were no fireworks over Rome. It was a "small thing."
Here is the hard question for you: If God spoke to you today with the same volume He used in Bethlehem, would you even hear Him?
Or is your life so cluttered with the noise of "important things"—news, entertainment, anxiety, ambition—that the cry of a child would go unnoticed? We often claim we are waiting for God to speak, but perhaps He is already speaking, and we are just too loud to notice. The barrier isn't His silence; it's our noise. We have to become small enough to appreciate the smallness of God.
The Bridge
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