I love to walk. One of my favorite places to walk takes me past a creek not more than a quarter-mile from my house. The other day, I as was walking, I decided to stop and sit by the creek. I crossed the bridge and followed an old dirt path down to the creek. I found a flat rock big enough to sit on and listened to the water running over the rocks in the creek. The sound is so soothing and relaxing. I sat sitting and skipping stones and meditating. Finally, I decided to continue with my walk. As I stood to leave and started walking back down the path, the sound of the creek grew fainter the farther I walked until by the time I was back on the sidewalk, it was barely audible. As I was thinking about this and how sound works, I was reminded that, in our walk with the Lord, the closer we are to God the better we can hear his voice. ...