Sometimes it is not in your own strength to create peace/quiet. Sometimes you have to seek the quiet in the chaos. It seems this would be impossible but it’s in the breath prayer, in one word uttered, one sight that creates awe or reverence. One image. A Sound. Something that is not wasted on you. The quick passing of a hummingbird. The sight of one drop creating a ripple effect in a puddle. The image of a tree filled with apple blossoms. A grasshopper. The sight of one small hand. Overhearing a conversation between five year olds while watching a soccer game. These were not lost one you. Wonderment, awe, amazement is all around you. God is in the whisper as well as the thunder. He is in the second as He is in the hour or day. One seems to have more significance than the other by how we try to measure with some false sense of security. A moment or a sound  or a life does not have more meaning because of some scale we have created, but simply because it is. And it is given to us to acknowledge and to hold sacred in awe and reverence.
I write this to remind myself. Sometimes I forget to see Him.

Cause me to remember oh Lord

To take these moments as photographs 

To pause, to reflect, to enjoy.....