Exerpt from "Reaching for the Invisible God" by Phillip Yancey:
“I want my life to be integrated in the one true reality of a God who knows everything about me and desires for me only the good. I want to view all the distractions of my day from the perspective of eternity. I want to abandon myself to a God who can elevate me beyond the tyranny of myself. I will never be free from evil or from distractions, but I pray that I can be freed from the anxiety and unrest that crowd in with them………… Until I took the time to extract myself from daily routine and commit to long periods of silence, I missed hearing the internal voice. Although God may have been speaking all along, until I opened my ears it made little difference in my life."