Searching for Peace

A thousand clamoring voices
Descended on my ears
Of shattered dreams and blasted hopes
Of guilts and doubts and fears

Perfect pandemonium
From without and from within
Until I could hear nothing
Except the deadly din

Never before so many thoughts
Filling me with dread
Never before so many things
To be done or to be said

It seemed I just had to listen
Till I heard a Voice inside me say
"Be still and know that I am God"
So I struggled to obey

I shut my ears to every sound
And soon the clamor ceased
Oh, the joy of silence!
The bliss of my release!

And then I heard a Still Small Voice
Deep within my soul
Speak to me so tenderly
Of a Love that would make me whole

Now my prison has been opened
My spirit has been healed
My Lord has filled me with His Love
By His Truth revealed