Is God the loudest voice in your life? Or Are there other voices in your life, including your own-self talk distracting you? There are three things that hinder us from hearing God’s voice: they are distance, distraction, and discernment. In part one of the series, we explored how distance separates us from God’s voice. I would like to focus on distraction. Distraction is something that captures our desires more than something else... what distracts us, has our attention. So what are you distracted by? If you are a parent you know the experience of calling your child who is fixated with their laptop, video game, phone or tv show that when you call them for dinner, they don’t respond. Most often they are not intentionally ignoring you. They are just so consumed with their screen that your voice is peripheral noise. At times we do that with God too… we are so focused on what we desire to do, that God’s voice becomes secondary, peripheral noise that goes unnoticed.