Lewis used to say that pain is God’s amplifier, making us hear His voice and that well may be true, but darkness is His attention-getter.
#NIGHT SHIFT MEME TV#
In a book entitled, God Works the Night Shift, Ron Mehl said that we often hear the voice of God speaking to us in the quietness of the night when his voice is otherwise drowned out by the din and noise of traffic, the cries of children clamoring for our time, the demands of business and earning a living, to say nothing of the noise of TV and lure of the Internet. Question: Does God work the night shift? You bet He does. During the night shift everything is intensified including sounds: the creak of the floor, the noise of the refrigerator, the ticking of the clock, even the whisper of voices or sounds penetrating the darkness. Sixty minutes can seem as long as an entire afternoon with daylight. It’s darker, it’s quieter, it’s lonelier, it’s longer. I know one thing: the darkness of the night shift seems to intensify everything. Some love the night shift others hate it. flight, as well as the pilot who stayed awake while his passengers slept.
#NIGHT SHIFT MEME DRIVER#
Yet life would be much more difficult for everyone if it were not for those who work the night shift-the cop who patrols the warehouses and dark streets from midnight to dawn, the nurse who makes her lonely rounds dispensing care and encouragement for those whose suffering make the dawn a long ways away, the folks who stock the shelves of grocery stores while others sleep, the taxi driver who’s there to meet the 3 a.m. Too lonely, too dark, too much of a difficult thing. It means sleeping when others are awake, working when others are playing, watching the moon instead of the sun, working in the dark instead of the day. It means eating supper and going to bed when everybody else is eating breakfast and getting ready for the day. Have you ever worked the night shift? Getting used to the schedule isn’t much fun.
God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” Genesis 1:3-5 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. Sala | Series: Guidelines For Living | And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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