The comfort of noise

Silence.....Quiet.....Stillness.....

How often do we consciously experience it? Do we seek after it or do we avoid it?
I have come to realize that there is a certain comfort to noise and also that I need to spend more time avoiding that comfort.
The noises of life are a distraction. A diversion from a place where I desire (or more truthfully where I want to desire) to be.

The Lord said, (to Elijah) "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

Too often I have allowed my senses to be too bombarded by the "noises" in life to allow me to hear anything remotely like a whisper.
Activity, music, television, reading, thinking, worrying, praying, talking, eating, playing, you name it they are all a form of "noise".

I do not intend for this to be self deprecating or to condemn anyone else. It's just my observation of myself.
Oh Lord help me to revel in the quietness and peace that only you can bring. Keep my life from being so consumed with noise that I cannot hear you.