It has been advised that we always approach God quietly because God speaks in a whisper. While we are busy getting more of what we have enough of, while we are so noisy as a society, we don't hear the voice of God because we've been too loud. We must learn to receive God's whispering voice. The season of silence is the season of Lent which begins this week, but we're not into that season yet. We're in a season of bright light, the end of Epiphany.

In the Old Testament Moses goes up on the mountaintop, meets the face of God, and brightness shines on his face. He is a reflection of God's light. It's so bad that he has to wear something over his face because he blinds his friends. In the New Testament there is the story of Jesus, with Peter, James, and John on the mountaintop. Moses and Elij…