What does God sound like? What an interesting question to consider. Is it a voice? Male or female? It is a sound like you'd find in nature? There are countless possibilities. For my 17-month-old son, though, I have a feeling God sounds like a woman.
His sleeping has been a little erratic lately and if Anne gets up with him in the middle of the night, I try to get up with him when he wakes up in the morning, usually between 5:30 and 6. It's the same routine. I walk in, he looks at me, throws himself on his mattress and cries because I'm not who he wants. He carries on for about 30 seconds, then gets up again, thinking, hey, maybe this guy will take me to who I really want. I pick him up, he lunges toward our room, but as I walk by our room and head downstairs, he cries again. Obviously I didn't get the message. He'll usually stop, though, after a minute or so. This morning, I was downstairs and had him on my lap and he was a little more distraught than normal. He was on my shoulder, clinging to me, when all of a sudden, a voice was heard. A soft, feathery voice, "Ethan..." He knows that voice. It's the voice of one who loves him, is always there for him, will help him when he's sad and laugh at him when he's funny. He whirled around and there in the doorway was his mother. He lunged for her and she took him in her arms. I was a footnote, which I've gotten used to.
A voice that he knows and is always there. No matter what it sounds like, that's God's voice.
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