4/17/08
According to a report from Charles Q. Choi of LiveScience.com the earth is giving off an unremitting hum of numerous notes which the human ear finds imperceptible, ‘like a giant, exceptionally quiet symphony’. This humming occurs even when the ground is not shaking due to an earthquake. It has been posited that it could come from the ocean’s churning or the roiling atmosphere. Early research found the hum to be spheroidal from up and down rock movement; however sounds have now been found that oscillate making the hum that is roughly shaped like rings. Choi relates this to being like ‘dozens of lazy hurricanes’. Though this was not unexpected the ring like waves are nearly as strong as the spherical ones which was surprising. Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig a University of Stuttgart geoscientist said ‘this is a very small signal that is hard to measure, and the excitation is probably due to multiple interactions in a complex system”. He added that understanding the sound would help us understand how the land, sea and air all interact.
Hmm, movement, excitation, interaction of complex systems, underlying sounds imperceptible to the human hearing but not undetectable sounds, kinda sounds familiar to me. Oh, yeah, sounds like life, especially life lived by the Spirit. Scripture says Yeshua came to give us life, more abundantly Jn 10:10 (abundant is defined as super abundant, superior). Sadly however most of the time we don’t hear the voice of the Spirit, we don’t get excited about His movement and we tend to shy away from a deeper understanding cause face it; it is a very complicated interaction, sort of. Actually children seem not to have so much trouble with the excitation of interaction with complex systems, they just kind of go with it. Having said this in my opinion, it takes a childlike acceptance of what is definitely there and a childlike heart to often hear it at all; then a maturing into the knowledge of its purpose and our part in it needs to occur.
Hawking once asked the question ‘what is it that puts fire into the equation?’ My posit is I know Who puts the fire in the equation, I want to know the equation. A lofty goal I admit and I know I perhaps won’t even understand a lot of the equation but I find if you don’t ask and seek you probably won’t find.
Prov. 2 says if we tune our ears to wisdom and set our hearts to understand that (vs 5) we will find Abba’s knowledge because He gives wisdom and speaks knowledge and understanding.
Is. 6:3 says the entire earth is full of His glory. The God’s Word version of Ps. 66:4 says the whole earth will worship Him and make music to praise Him (my paraphrase) *also check out Ps. 98:4 and Is. 44:23*
Romans ch. 8 discusses the fact that creation is groaning in frustration along with those of us who have the Spirit waiting in hope for freedom to fulfill its purpose. Together we groan for release, for purpose to be manifested for more abundant life which was promised.
Let me share a not so secret insight when you wait with hope the groan becomes a hum, the hum a song, the song a shout, a dance…a time of worship, renewal, a grace space.
2nd Peter 3:5 speaks to why some won’t know, won’t understand, wont’ hear. For those who can’t feel the hope, won’t hear the song, because they have hidden this knowledge from themselves. They don’t hear the song proclaiming that the world is held together by His Word.
Hmm, what’s that I hear, the cosmos joins the song and we answer back, we resonate with the circular sounds of all creation as we hum along to Abba’s heartbeat.
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