Stillness

The word of God is meant to be heard, and hearing requires silence....  To have ears to hear requires grace, for God’s word can be heard only by him whose ears God has opened. He does this when He pleases, and the prayer for truth is directed at that divine pleasure. But it also requires something that we ourselves desire and are capable of: being inwardly “present”; listening from the vital core of our being; unfolding ourselves to that which comes from beyond, to the sacred word. All this is possible only when we are inwardly still. In stillness alone can we really hear.  ~Msgr. Romano Guardini, Meditations Before Mass

The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh...  Song of Songs 2:8